you can ride a hundred miles and not see one face and you can drink from the rivers and the streams and you can sleep under the stars no matter where you are in a cowboy s dreams you can turn the radio on in your truck and on a station hear chris ledoux sing and every road that you drive down leads you further from a town in a cowboy s dreams and everybody s got a horse and a good rope and everybody s wearing boots spurs and jeans and men tip their hats with pride when a lady passes by oh i wish love was what it seems in a cowboy s dreams you can take a man s handshake as his solemn vow and when he says i do that s just what he means the only time that he might cry is when his old cow pup dies in a cowboy s dreams and everybody s got a horse and a good rope and everybody s wearing boots spurs and jeans and men tip their hats with pride when a lady passes by oh i wish love was what it seems in a cowboy s dreams you can ride a hundred miles and not see one fence