cowboys they are ladies men all right they ll love em up and talk em up all night but they re lonely when there s nothing else to do and that s what makes the cowboys sing the blues he does a little shakespeare and he sings he plays the mandolin and other things he s looking for love beauty and iq and that s what makes the cowboy sing the blues cowboys have to fall in love get hurt and all that bit let their hearts hang out so they can write you all a hit so ladies if they ask you don t refuse let s all help the cowboys sing the blues cowboys they don t ever understand this thing between a woman and a man until they find the one they always lose and that s what makes the cowboys sing the blues a cowboy takes his lonely pen in hand and tries to make somebody understand but she has ears to hear a different tune and that s what makes the cowboy sing the blues cowboys have to fall in love let s all help the cowboys sing the blues