Can't Love A Cowboy

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Song Title
Can't Love A Cowboy
Writers
Benjamin Grace Gilmore, Karyn Thurston Gilmore
Publisher
Story & Tune Music admin by Palm Valley Music LLC (ASCAP)
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Lyrics
you can answer his wink with a smile when you meet at the bar
give in to a dance or a summer romance
but honey hold on to your heart
you can make love, you can wake up with him in your bed
but his only home is a saddle
and his battle ain’t yours to regret

if he leaves in the morning, you’ll still be worth more than slick tongues and silvery lies
so don’t hitch up his horse to your house like he won’t say goodbye

you can’t tell the sun down in Dallas that it shouldn’t burn
and you can’t run away from a lesson you need to learn
you can only hold on to a memory till it fades away
and you can’t love a cowboy like he’s gonna stay

you can cry when he writes you a song on a lonely guitar
laugh in his arms cause he means you no harm
but darlin it ends when it starts
you can tell him you’ll wait, but he ain’t gonna come back around
rivers don’t change their direction
and a cowboy don’t tie himself down

when he leaves in the morning, you’ll still be worth more than slick tongues and silvery lies
so don’t hitch up his horse to your house like he won’t say goodbye

you can’t tell the sun down in Dallas that it shouldn’t burn
and you can’t run away from a lesson you need to learn
you can only hold on to a memory till it fades away
and you can’t love a cowboy like he’s gonna stay

westward he’ll ride
chase the stars in his eyes
till the dust on his boots meets the sea
and he finds that old road
has just led him alone
when he thought it was leading him free

you can’t tell the sun down in Dallas that it shouldn’t burn
and you can’t run away from a lesson you need to learn
you can only hold on to a memory till it fades away
and you can’t love a cowboy like he’s gonna stay

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