COSMIC COWBOY

Thursday April 16, 2009
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Cosmic Cowboy

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Written by Michael Martin Murphey
and performed, predominately, by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Merry-go-rounds and burial grounds

Are all the same to me.

Horses on posts and kids and ghosts

Are spirits that we ought to set free.

Them city slicker pickers

got a lot of slicker licks than me.

But ridin the range and acting strange

Is where I want to be.

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And I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)

Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

Talkin bout a supernatural country rockin galoot

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Well skinny dippin and lone star sippin

and steel guitar

Are just as good as Hollywood

and some boogie-woogie bars.

Im gonna buy me a vest and a head out west

My little woman and myself.

And when we come to town

the people gather around

And marvel at the little babys health.

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And I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)

Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

I said a supernatural country rockin galoot.

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Then a big raccoon and a harvest moon

keep rolling through my mind.

And a home on the range where the antelope play

Is sometimes hard to find.

So dont bury me on the lone prairie.

Id rather play there alive.

Well, I'm doing my best

I keep my farm in the west

My little Bronco in over-drive.

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And I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)

Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

Talkin bout a supernatural country rockin galoot.

And I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

I just wanna ride and rope and hoot (hoot!)

Well I just wanna be a cosmic cowboy

Talkin bout a supernatural country rockin galoot

And up is not the way I wanna shoot

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Watch and listen to Michael Martin Murphey sing and play his tune

with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell and David Allen Coe

at Willie’s annual 4th of July party in 1974.

by clicking here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yTlYVB4c_k




LARRY..CURTIS..SPURLOCK

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