| All my life I’ve been a cowboy in my heart
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| Every western hero on the screen’s
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| Been with me from the start
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| Ridin' high and showin' me the way
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| And they’ve been there with me through my toughest times
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| We’d ride out to the boundries but we never crossed those lines
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| And that’s a code that I’m still livin' by today
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| The code of the west was black and white
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| Good guys and the bad
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| You would always know who’s wrong or right
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| By the color of their hat
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| Now there aren’t so many happy trails
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| I’ve ridden some you wouldn’t wanna see
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| You don’t go off into the sunset
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| And they don’t run from sea to shinin' sea
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| And it’s good to see the bad guys on the run
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| While our modern day heroes show 'em how the west was won
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| On their trail 'til they bring the last one down
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| We could use a few more cowboys here today
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| A few more days of reckoning and a lot more hell to pay
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| Where that debt is owed there ain’t no middle ground
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| The code of the west was black and white
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| The good guys and the bad
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| You would always know who’s wrong or right
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| By the color of their hat
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| Now there aren’t so many happy trails
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| I’ve ridden some you wouldn’t wanna see
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| You don’t go off into the sunset
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| And they don’t run from sea to shinin' sea
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| The code of the west was black and white
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| The good guys and the bad
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| You would always know who’s wrong and who was right
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| By the color of their hat
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| Now there aren’t so many happy trails
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| I’ve ridden some you wouldn’t wanna see
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| You don’t go off into the sunset
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| And they don’t run from sea to shinin' sea
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| All my life I’ve been a cowboy in my heart |