Julie was a cheerleader from Dallas with long red hair and steel blue eyes in the crazy heat of Summer we were making love and we were getting high I was a cowboy and she was my baby love wasn't nothing but a sweet dream I was a cowboy and she was my baby well that's the way it used to be but things aint always what they seem I had a girl in West Virginia she used to love to sing the blues she taught me things I never knew we spent a lot of time drinking whiskey and singing Willie Nelson songs it really didn't last that long I was a cowboy and she was my baby love wasn't nothing but a sweet dream I was a cowboy and she was my baby well that's the way it used to be but things aint always what they seem Stacy loved the peer at Long Beach I'd look into her hazel eyes they sparkled like the stars in the sky and the reflections on the water I think about her magic kiss I always get to feel like this I was a cowboy and she was my baby love wasn't nothing but a sweet dream I was a cowboy and she was my baby well that's the way it used to be but things aint always what they seem I was a cowboy and she was my baby well that's the way it used to be but things aint always what they seem