So You Want To Be A Cowboy Singer Songtext / Lyric

(Waylon Jennings & Tony Joe White)

Waylon Jennings and Tony Joe White



(Tony)

City light are shining like diamonds

Coming from the southwestern lows

Big jet engines screaming like ten thousand horses

Another town, another show.



(Waylon)

I don't talk about the women that I've known from time to time

You know that I just can't be alone

You know there's no one waiting for me anywhere

That I love, like I love the one at home, love the one at home.






Chorus:

So you want to be a cowboy singer

It can make you rich or make you poor

Just turn it loose, let it out, and hook em' down the road

There's always room for one more.



--- Instrumental ---



(Waylon & Tony)

Sometimes when I look into the mirror

I can see that I've been crazy now and then

The lines on my face won't tell you where I'm going

But it sure as hell can tell you where I've been.



Chorus:

So you want to be a cowboy singer

Pick them ol' guitars every night

If you're ever down around Corpus Christi Texas

Be sure to tell them all, I said, ''Hi.''

"tell 'em me an' ol' Waylon said hi.''...



--- Instrumental to fade ---