The Cowboy Who Started the Fight Songtext
von Billy Joe Shaver

Thank you
I might have to do this one by myself

The legs on the lady a-walkin′
Was tanned to a dark berry brown
Her body was made like a song to be played
To the tune of a million a pound

She was a wonder of a woman I reckon
And she's who screwed her head on right
The toast of the world was a long-legged girl
And the cowboy who started the fight

Well, he just pulled into town, a beat up old green 1953 Chevrolet pickup truck
With whiskey bumps all over it and the right front fender falling off
He coasted on into a no parking zone
Got out and took the keys and chunked ′em down the gutter
Turned around and just walked off

He allowed how his time had been wasted
On drinking and running around
He spend half his life searchin' barrooms at night
For the sweetheart that he never found


And it was plain from the moment their eyes met
They'd wound up in each others arms
The lady′s young life was laid open that night
And the cowboy he drank a deep of her charms

Singing hey-h-ide-he from the depths of the sea
To the mountains so hollering high
He done found the best one under God′s given sun, yeah
The cowboy, he got lucky that night

While the angel beside him lay sleeping
He silently thanked God above
For being a kind-hearted father
And blessing his life with her love
For one night of love with that woman
Was more than he knew he deserved

So he found all he had left worth givin'
And he gave all he had left to her
He slid back inside his old Wrangler′s
Filled up his boots with his feet


While the subways beneath New York City
Screamed through the veins of the street
Yeah, the lady gave up without question
The trophy she saved all her life
Then she curled up beside his old weather-worn hide
When the cowboy just laid down and died

Hey-hi-de-he when a whoop through the street
As his soul slowly winged out of sight
The lady was torn from the child bein' born
And the cowboy found heaven that night

Thank you
So damn hard to find an audience quiet enough
To listen to that thing, ′cause it's a long up