- Ridin' Tall
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- All my life there's been a cowboy
riding tall against the sky
- No matter where I go I see him
"comin' through the rye"
- When we was just a kid he was on
the silver screen
- Or jumping off the pages of a book
where I'd just been
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- But the real life cowboys was
around me purty close
- Startin' with my grandad's who
rode the trails they chose
- One was born up north where the
Sioux winds blow all day
- Traveling to preach the word of
God the Christian way
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- My other pap came out of Kansas
ridin' cross the wheat
- He liked to fish the streams while
restin' off his seat
- They worked the ranges where folks
lived hard lives
- I only got to know them later on
with their wives
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- Then was my dad who cowboyed
singin' a western song
- He lived in California with my ma
til he was gone
- But the best hand ever made was my
dear brother Mike
- If you don't get a fair shake
he'll go out with you on strike
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- Of course the cowboy still rides
tall against the sky
- Each one is just a little
different in their cowboy try
- But if you stack them all together
they make a purty sight
- One hell of a combination when it
comes to doin' right
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