Lyrics
(Folk song)
Oh I’m a Texas cowboy so far away from home.
If I get back to Texas I never more shall roam.
Montana is too cold for me, the winters are too long.
Before the round ups do begin our money is all gone.
See also
- Country: US Southwest
- Type: cowboy
- Harmony: I, II, IV, V
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm: anacrusis /
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsld’
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
This poem was on the back of a Cisco Kid comic book around 1952. Every word is still in my brain.