i was born and raised in the red clay hills of texas in the land where the grass gets only beer can tall that s where i learned to cuss and fight and chew brown mule tobacco fix windmills fore i was five years old i rode every head of stock from the gulf to kansas city and running wild is all i ve ever known but this cowboy s got a weakness for tight levis and yellow ribbons and there s something bout em i can t leave alone tight levis and yellow ribbons make a cowboy swim a river that before he jumps he knows is way too wide and they ll make him throw a saddle on a bronc he s never seen and one he knows he ll never break to ride i met her at a rodeo in douglas arizona i d drawn the rankest horse a man could draw well i rode him tall and spurred him high and when i made the whistle the crowd went wild but she was all i saw that night we had a beer or two with friends of mine from dallas she smiled and said she loved the texas drawl and i felt like roy rogers did in all those cowboy movies cause i became the hero got the money girl and all tight levis and yellow ribbons make a cowboy swim a river that before he jumps he knows is way too wide and they ll make him throw a saddle on a bronc he s never seen and one he knows he ll never break to ride yeah they ll make him throw a saddle on a bronc he s never seen and one he knows he ll never break to ride