I met him in Wyoming at the Cheyenne Rodeo Just a kid in pigtails and thirteen at the time I remember how I cheered the day he rode a horse called Midnight And I vowed that someday that cowboy would be mine Followed him to Denver where we became good friends We'd sit around the streets and talk while he was killing time He'd laugh and tell me stories but he never mentioned staying For the next town and then rodeo were always on his mind He's a rodeo cowboy, he follows a circuit where top money's paid That's where he'll be found The only thing he owns is a horse and silver saddle Rodeo cowboy, he'll never settle down In Salt Lake City, Utah he told me that he loved me But still I knew he wasn't born to be the settling kind For with tomorrow's sun he'd pack up his old trailer And leave all thoughts of me and love one hundred miles behind The last time that I saw him was in Amarillo, Texas I'm still in love with him, although he can't be mine But I'll always keep his shiny silver buckle that he gave me Weeds all around cowboy of 1969 He's a rodeo cowboy, he follows a circuit where top money's paid That's where he'll be found The only thing he owns is a horse and silver saddle Rodeo cowboy, he'll never settle down The only thing he owns is a horse and silver saddle Rodeo cowboy, he'll never settle down