1.

(# 16 country hit)

All Around Cowboy

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

Well all around cowboy I've won it six years in a row
All around cowboy means champ of the big rodeo
I've made me some money I've had me some good times
The falls that I've had have been few
Till a rodeo queen made the all around cowboy look like an all around fool

I was the cowboy that said he would never be rode
I even bragged how I'd never be branded or broke
I was doin' right well till this blonde little filly rode into my life like a dream
And the all around cowboy fell head over heels in love with the rodeo queen

The moment I looked in her blue eyes I knew I was gone
I tried to hide them but the feelin's I had were too strong
She showed the world what an all around cowboy could do
She showed the world how an all around cowboy could look like an all around fool

She made me feel like a horse without any fire
Too late I realized breakin' me was her desire
She rolled me and raked me with spurs that left such a hurt
She left me broken and she left me cryin' out there in the rodeo dirt

The moment I looked in her blue eyes I knew I was gone...
She showed the world how an all around cowboy could look like an all around fool

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2.

Dreamer

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

When I was a young man beginnin' my teens
How well I remember the lickin's I'd get cause I dreamed

My work never finished barely begun
I couldn't get started till all of my dreamin' was done

I wouldn't chop cotton I wouldn't chop wood
And then pa would whip me and say that's for bein' no good

But I kept chasin' rainbows finally I found
The great open range and the hills were my best dreamin' ground

Well I left the homeplace how mother did cry
She begged me to stay there and not say goodbye
My pa told my mother your tears are in vain
Your son is a dreamer and the winds call his name

So don't try to stop him let him move on
Cause he won't stop his driftin' till all of his dreamin' is gone

Last night in a campfire a face I did see
A vision of mother she seemed to be callin' to me

For seventeen years now I've drifted alone
But I want to see mother tomorrow I start driftin' home

The last hill I've climbed now and what do I see
An old run down shack where the ranch used to be
Then I see a tombstone and then see one more
I've drifted too long from the old ranch house door

There's nothin' more left now but driftin' it seems
But I hope I can dream of the lickin's I'd get cause I dreamed

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3.

Pride And The Badge

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

All night long I tried to sleep but sleep refused to come
Cause today I knew I'd either have to fight or run
Knowin' if I'd choose to run my mind would never rest
Cause with so much pride I wear this badge upon my vest

Folks are filled with fear because there's three bad guns in town
Sheriff Folson made a wrong move and they shot him down
One day call Dakota Jack and one El Paso Red
The other just turned twenty and he's called the Killer Kid

Good advice I get and that's to leave and run away
But my pride and badge I wear won't let me live this way
And if I stay the three have bragged they'll add me to their list
But I have a different aim and I don't aim to miss

From the doorway where I stand I see the outlaws three
Worried none because they know the town's not helpin' me
From a hundred yards away I try a lucky shot
Luck is with me and Dakota Jack dies on the spot

Well the Kid runs through the barroom door and Red goes up the stairs
The Kid is ragin' mad he's breakin' bottles kickin' chairs
And from a roof El Paso Red has vowed to pay me back
As he views the lifeless body of Dakota Jack

I can see him as he jumps from one roof to the next
Searchin' for me but he has no idea where I'm at
But I watch his every move I'm ready when he leaps
As I shoot him in midair he crashes to the street

Now there's one against just one I've evened up the score
Down the street I hear a yell come through the barroom door
The Kid has screamed there's no way I can live unless I run
Said there ain't no law dog man enough to take his gun

Through the barroom door he walks and steps out on the street
I can't match his draw he's much too fast for me to beat
And as I walk toward him we both grab a .45
Maybe I will die today and he will stay alive

Like a hammer something hits me spinnin' me around
As I fall I shoot him twice before he hits the ground
His bullet missed me still I feel the burnin' in my chest
His bullet hits the badge I wear with pride upon my vest

As the people view the bodies of the lifeless three
From their looks I know exactly what they think of me
To them I'm just a killer and they could not careless
Bout my pride or bout the badge I wear upon my vest

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4.

Restless Cattle

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

Restless cattle stop your millin' round it's time to go to sleep
While I tell you bout some secrets this poor cowboy has to keep
You won't understand but still I'd like to get it off my chest
Restless cattle now it's time to get some rest

If I show you what I carry will you promise not to laugh
If another teardrop falls and stains her faded photograph
Only you know how I feel inside only you know that I weep
Restless cattle settle down it's time to sleep

What's this you've stopped your millin' can it be you understand
That a cowboy cries like any other man
Guess my story must have touched you cause you're all standin' around
Restless cattle now it's time for beddin' down

Guess my story must have touched you cause you're all standin' around
Restless cattle now it's time for beddin' down

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5.

When I'm Gone

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

When I'm gone will you forget me
Will you find somebody new
When I'm gone will you forget me
Darling as you often do

When I'm gone will you forget me
Will you look for someone new
Will some other's arms enfold you
Just the way mine used to do

Will there be no mem'ry of me
Or the first day when we met
When I'm gone will you remember
Or when I'm gone will you forget

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6.

(# 25 country hit)

Buenos Dias Argentina

Ben Raleigh - Udo Jurgens

© Mariposa Music, BMI

Buenos dias Argentina what a lovely sight you are
Can't help wavin' my sombrero for the joy that's in my heart
Buenos dias Buenos Aires with your bright blue sky above
In your warm September sunlight I see everything I love

Buenos dias Argentina así dice mi canción
Buenos dias Argentina canto con el corazón
I was young and I was restless
So I searched as dreamers do
Buenos dias Argentina
You don't know how I missed you

Buenos dias my beloved been away from you too long
In the evenin' we'll be hearin' soft guitars that play our song
And the music of the Pampas once again will bring us close
Only this time I can promise we will never say adios

Buenos dias Argentina así dice mi canción...

Buenos dias Argentina
You don't know how I missed you

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7.

Lonely Old Bunkhouse

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

On the ranch is a lonely old bunkhouse
Since all the old timers are gone
To a ranch with a much better bunkhouse
That you hear about only in song

Where each bunk has a soft feather pillow
There are soft downy rugs on the floor
In the yard there's a green weeping willow
And the welcome sign tacked on the door

Each night in my dreams down the trail I can see
Clarence and Bob eager so waving me
On the ranch is a lonely old bunkhouse
Since all the old timers are gone
Since all the old timers are gone

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8.

San Angelo

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

North of the border of Old Mexico
I rode one day to the cowtown of San Angelo
A hot sun was glowin' a warm wind was blowin'
Still not as warm as the lips that I waited to kiss

She sent a message a long time ago
Sicorra had promised to meet me in San Angelo
I was aware of the chance I was taking
I was an outlaw but great was my love for this girl

I must be with her I can't stay away
Nights spent without her are lonely and so are the days
If it means death then I'll have to chance it
Only a few moments more and she'll be at her side

At ten o'clock in the mornin'
I tied my horse and I started to walk down the street
Where was Sicorra had she forgotten
This was the day and the hour that she wanted to meet

But something dreadfully wrong and I fear death awaits me
Here on this hot dusty street

Back of each window the click of a gun
Die if I stay and my love for her won't let me run
Where is Sicorra will my eyes see her
Then in a moment she runs from a door down the street

Upon your horse she is crying
Ride out of town it's a trap and they're waiting fow you
But if I ride out she must ride with me
Then in a moment I know that our chances are gone

For a bullet is well on its way and it finds my Sicorra
She dies as she falls in my arms

Tears dim my vision but plainly I see
The ranger that killed her is standing there waiting for me
I ride to meet him my one thought is beat him
He deserves death and I swear that this ranger will die

I beat his draw and I shot him
Shot him six times just as fast as the bullets could fly
My gun was empty or more I would shoot him
Now there are others just like him that want me to die

Their bullets are coming my way how they hurt when they hit me
The pain makes me fall to the ground

Gone is my strength just the will left to fight
I hear the sound of the lead as it robs me of life
If I must die let me find Sicorra
Let me hold on to her hand for the few moments left

Blindly I search and it isn't in vain
I touch the soft velvet hand and it eases the pain
Life is no more but we're together
Even in death she's my lover it's over goodbye

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9.

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Bob Nolan

© Music Of The West, BMI

See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds

I'm a roving cowboy ridin' all day long
Tumbleweeds around me sing their lonely song
Nights underneath the prairie moon
I'll ride along and sing a tune

See them tumbling down...

Cares of the past are behind
Nowhere to go but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds

I know when night has gone
That a new world's born at dawn

I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart is a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweeds

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10.

Ballad Of A Small Man

Marty Robbins

© Mariposa Music, BMI

He was a small man but this man was all man he was accustomed to danger
He knew the badlands he knew every bad man this man was a ranger

Into the township of Pecos he rode and everyone noticed the stranger
Plainly it showed in the way that he rode in this man was a ranger

Everyone watched as he climbed from his horse and walked by
Every eye dropped to the gun hangin' low on his thigh
The silence was broken the ranger had spoken and these were his words

I've trailed an outlaw for thirty six days and I'm twenty hours behind him
He's here in town so I'll just be around long as it takes me to find him

Slowly he turned and he looked down the street then he looked back at the crowd
Somethin' about him left no room to doubt him he spoke very little but loud

If it is pity you have for my size save it don't waste it my friend
This equalizer I have on my hip makes me as big as the next man

Then from the door came a curse and we knew at a glance
The outlaw had stepped to the street to begin his advance
Women grabbed children men grabbed their wives and they ran from the street

Even the soft little breeze became still death had a minute to wait
Two hands would dive for a Cold .45 one hand would come up too late

Go for your gun was the outlaw's remark tomorrow you'll sleep neath the stone
The ranger replied there'll be plenty of time after you go for your own

All of a sudden it happened both of them grabbed for a gun
Both cleared leather both fired together and everyone thought it was one gun

A .45 slug hit the outlaw and spun him around
His life was over he died on his way to the ground
To our surprise we watched as the ranger took one faltering step

Slowly he crumpled and fell to the ground a bullet was deep in his side
He looked all around but he spoke not a word a faint little smile and he died

He was a small man but this man was all man he was accustomed to danger
He knew the badlands he knew every bad man this man was a ranger

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