Can't Be A Cowboy Forever

Now he don't expect her to stay true to him

And she never says that she will

But he's got a first love that just might kill him

And she knows he's hooked on the thrill

So she'll wait and worry then she'll wait some more

For the fever that drives him to just run its course

She talks to that picture they took their last night together

Says you can't be a cowboy forever

No, you can't be a cowboy forever

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Sometimes he calls her, he swears that the ground hurts

More than it did yesterday

She knows his voice, and he still sounds determined to do

Whatever it takes

So she'll wait and worry then she'll wait some more

For the fever that drives him to just run its course

The whiskey he drinks said some things last spring that upset her

Lord, he can't be a cowboy forever

No, you can't be a cowboy forever

♪

Then one night he shows up and says "what's for dinner?"

With that cocky grin on his face, the way that she smiled

And the way that she held him told him he wasn't too late

And she closed her eyes, and he put that ring on her finger

Said you can't be a cowboy forever

No, you can't be a cowboy forever

No, you can't be a cowboy forever