Karaoké Broken Cowboy The Dead South

It's been a long dark dirty road with a pocket full of gold

And I've been out here now all on my own

Well it's real quiet here

Just the way I like it here

There's no one to bother me except

In nineteen fifty-five

Born into Wadena's pride

I laid my head on that

Milligan creek bed

When I was a young man

I helped build this land

Oh I

Put down these rails as a

CPR man

Thought I'd live forever with my heart in my pocket

Oh my gun by my side and my feelings in a locket

Well that was a cold year in seventy-seven but I married my wife

We had two kids

I gave her a daughter

She gave me a son

And oh we rode those damn horses until we had none

Fists still like flyin'

Doin' things for dyin'

Oh I should have put that old gun away

But I

I am me

A broken cowboy

And I don't feel right no more 'cos I am a broken cowboy

Livin' life in the fast lane

Racin' cars and robbin' trains

I thought I had it all then one day I got the call

A father's worst dream

My son went down and I

The colors deceive me

As I see grey oh you're cuttin' me down with those cold words you're sayin'

Then you called me brother but this can't be so

'Cos you slander my name anywhere the wind will blow

Ho ho ho

But I

I am me

A broken cowboy

And I don't feel right no more 'cos I am a broken cowboy

Yes I am a broken cowboy

It's been a long dark dirty road with a pocket full of gold

And I've been out here now all on my own

Well it's real quiet here

Just the way I like it here

There's no one to bother me except

That old tauntin' tree