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I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
A starry night, a campfire light
The coyote call, the howling winds wail
So I ride out to the old sundown

I am just a cowboy lonesome on the trail
Lord, I'm just thinking about a certain female
The nights we spent together riding on the range
Looking back it seems so strange

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Riding in the rodeo

I was took in Texas I did not know her name
Lord, all these southern girls seem the same
Down below the border in a town in Mexico
I got my job busting broncs for the rodeo

Roll me over and turn me around
Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground
Roll me over and let me go
Running free with the buffalo

Roll me over and set me free
The cowboy's life is the life for me

"Cowboy Song" was released in the spring of 1976 on Thin Lizzy's sixth studio album, Jailbreak.

This album will always hold a very special place in my heart. It was released my freshman year and remained popular all through high school. It will forever be linked with those times and places in my memory....high school football games; drinking beer & partying in the boonies; 7 nights of the week on an endless cruise of the "loop" with friends, road-trips to the drive-in in another town (it wouldn't last much longer); and lazing away the afternoons in the sun at the community pool. The great rock bands of the seventies (Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Styx, Queen, Led Zepp, Pink Floyd, Rush, Scorpions, Kansas, Cheap Trick, and on....and on) made this a great time to grow up! If you went to high school in the seventies when all this incredible music was released, you know what I'm talking about. ;-)

I'm happy to finally be able to do something for one of my favorite tracks from this amazing album. I wanted to use bull-riding behind the "Roll me over and turn me around...Let me keep spinning till I hit the ground" lines and I tried a couple other edits one of which brought the bull-riding in earlier, but then the impact of those clips was a bit less when they were really needed (at the guitar solos!). Anyway, it was cool to play with this one and try to make something happen with it. Hope you enjoy it!

As usual HUGE THANKS to everyone who's art contributed to this new art.....THANK YOU!!!!

From Wiki:
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic described Jailbreak as a "truly exceptional album", with "a dimension of richness that sustains, but there's such kinetic energy to the band that it still sounds immediate no matter how many times it's played". Highlighting Lynott's songs as "lovingly florid... crammed with specifics and overflowing with life", he claimed that Gorham and Robertson's guitar work is "intertwined, dual-lead guitar interplay that was one of the most distinctive sounds of '70s rock".

A reviewer for Sputnikmusic took the view that nearly every song on the album is "a pure, hard rocker with little to no flaws", picking out the "killer groove" of "Angel from the Coast", the "infamous" "The Boys Are Back in Town" and the "gritty" title track. He also claimed that "Cowboy Song" is "arguably one of the best songs Thin Lizzy ever produced".

Conversely, Robert Christgau likened the album's songs to Bruce Springsteen cast-offs, with Lynott's lyrical ideas as "boring", and Gorham's guitar lines as "second-hand".
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