Songs Of The Kingwood Kowboy

Every Time We Say Hello (Larry W. Jones 01/04/2012) (song #6522)

Every time we say hello, my world is better

Every time we say hello, my heart’s in fetters

And everyone must know how much I love you so

Cause everything is better with our love aglow

Dear, when you are here, there’s nothing wrong about it

Stead of singing songs, I want to shout about it

There’s no better song, I’ll wager

That goes from minor to major

Every time we say hello, when we say hello

(instrumental)

Every time we say hello, my world is better

Every time we say hello, my heart’s in fetters

Dear, when you are here, there’s nothing wrong about it

Stead of singing songs, I want to shout about it

There’s no better song, I’ll wager

That goes from minor to major

Every time we say hello, when we say hello

There’s no better song, I’ll wager

That goes from minor to major

Every time we say hello, when we say hello

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Adios Longhorn (Larry W. Jones 01/04/2012) (song #6521)

You’re fed on grass and two years old

Worth the fourth of an ounce of gold

Big and fat and as wild as sin

The range won’t see you there again

Tenderloin for the man who shirks

Neck and knuckles for him who works

Adios longhorn, don’t you rant

On your way to the packing plant

Away you go, so long, longhorn

You caused me sweat since early morn

Now loaded with a hundred more

Your ranging days are now long o’re

(instrumental)

Away you go, so long, longhorn

You caused me sweat since early morn

Now loaded with a hundred more

Your ranging days are now long o’re

Rawhide and tallow, hoofs and horns

Nothing that the packing plant scorns

Adios longhorn, don’t you rant

On your way to the packing plant

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Evergreen Love (Larry W. Jones 01/04/2012) (song #6520)

When I see an evergreen tree

Dear, it so reminds me of you

An evergreen tree grows up strong

Like an evergreen love that’s true

Evergreen tree, evergreen tree

Evergreen love has come along

Evergreen love’s a lasting love

For evergreen is never blue

The lasting song I’m singing of

Is sweet evergreen love from you

Evergreen tree, evergreen tree

Evergreen love has come to me

(instrumental)

Evergreen love’s a lasting love

For evergreen is never blue

The lasting song I’m singing of

Is sweet evergreen love from you

Evergreen tree, evergreen tree

Evergreen love has come to me

When I see an evergreen tree

Dear, it so reminds me of you

An evergreen tree grows up strong

Like an evergreen love that’s true

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Young Western Singer (Larry W. Jones 01/03/2012) (song #6519)

Well, I’m a young western singer

But every song I start to sing

Some cowboy starts in to yellin’

Who choked that young dogie, poor thing

All the cowboys up and leave me

Not one of them stay very long

When I set my western voice free

With this old familiar sad song

As I walked out in the streets of Laredo

Oh, as I walked out in Laredo one day

I first took to drinkin’ then to card playin’

Got shot in the breast and am dyin’ today

I hate to see all them punchers run

And I hate to hear them all say

Git a rope, someone git a gun

And hang that young singer today

I don’t understand why they act

As if I am doing so wrong

Cause I’m a young western singer

With this old familiar sad song

As I walked out in the streets of Laredo

Oh, as I walked out in Laredo one day

I first took to drinkin’ then to card playin’

Got shot in the breast and am dyin’ today

Well, I’m a young western singer

I guess I’m just doing it wrong

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Foolish Kind Of Way (Larry W. Jones 01/03/2012) (song #6518)

I’ve always been a rover, I guess the foolish kind

Pretty girls I looked over, in quest of all I’d find

None could ever hold me though they begged for me to stay

I told all I loved them in a foolish kind of way

The foolish kind of way was the system that I used

I spread myself around and now I’m down with the blues

I never thought about tomorrow, only today

I told all I loved them in a foolish kind of way

I went to smoky places where I had lots of fun

I thought they were OK places, never hurt no one

Now when folks talk about me, here’s what all of them say

He told all he loved them in a foolish kind of way

(instrumental)

The foolish kind of way was the system that I used

I spread myself around and now I’m down with the blues

I never thought about tomorrow, only today

I told all I loved them in a foolish kind of way

So, listen to the tale of someone who really knows

Time is gonna tell if you don’t keep right on your toes

Don’t leave your heart at home and then go outside to play

Don’t tell all you love them in a foolish kind of way

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Rose Of The Prairie (Larry W. Jones 01/03/2012) (song #6517)

O’re the wide prairie, the prairie so wide

Early in morning this cowboy now rides

This cowboy rides, boys, this sad cowboy rides

Early in morning this cowboy now rides

She wrote a letter and sent it by stage

I read it over page by dreadful page

She married another by some design

I must not tarry, she’ll never be mine

(instrumental)

Rose of the prairie, this cowboy is blue

Though you’re now married, dear, I still love you

My love’s still true dear, my love is still true

Though you’re now married, dear, I still love you

O’re the wide prairie, the prairie so wide

Early in morning this cowboy now rides

This cowboy rides, boys, this sad cowboy rides

Early in morning this cowboy now rides

My rose of the prairie made this cowboy blue

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Cowboy’s Way (Larry W. Jones 01/03/2011) (song #6516)

To a cowpoke’s ear, the bawl of a steer

Is a melody of the plains

And when gray coyotes make their howling notes

To him it’s just a grateful strain

And his cowboy song as he rides along

Is all about his pretty gal

With her golden hair she’ll be waiting there

By the gate of the old corral

For a king’s gold crown in a big old town

He would turn down and never change

For his life is free on the wide prairie

Riding out on the western range

His eyes are open to everything there

But there’s nothing to make him fret

And if now and then his soul has a care

It will bring him no cold regret

The loud pounding beat of his pony’s feet

On the sod as he rides along

Is in harmony with the melody

Of his light hearted cowboy song

He still rides the way as in yesterday

With a big holler and a hoot

With a tightened cinch that won’t give an inch

When he digs with a roweled boot

The skies may turn grey and make cowboys pray

And the wind may blow cold and moan

But a cowboy’s way is his only way

The saddle is a cowboy’s throne

So, saddle up boys for the ride today

Just look at those big western skies

And we’ll know the joys of a cowboy’s way

For I can see it in your eyes

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Butcher Holler Square Dancing (Larry W. Jones 01/02/2012) (song #6515)

Well, they’re tunin’ up the fiddles

Way down in old Butcher Holler

Where Grandpa Jones sings his riddles

They say he beats all the callers

In the country around about

There’s one old bow legged feller

And he’s the loudest, there’s no doubt

Listen to him laugh and beller

Now, balance all and do-si-do

Rope her, tie her and let her go

Now, swing her round and place her there

Promenade all and don’t be square

Now, all choose your pretty partners

Just go grab the next one after

Now, step lively to the corners

And shake the roof with your laughter

Now, let’s all do it one more time

Do-si-do, with lots of prancin’

Cause there is nothin’ quite as fine

As Butcher Holler square dancin’

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I Rode Out From El Paso (Larry W. Jones 01/01/2012) (song #6514)

I rode out from El Paso following his tracks

The sheriff said I would know how to bring him back

This star I wear is shiny, reflecting the sun

It feels so heavy for the job that must be done

The outlaw is a man who’s taller than them all

He was once a good man before his wayward fall

The circuit judge he gunned down and now he must pay

I rode out from El Paso for this wayward prey

Once upon a time he lived for justice and right

Until his young wife was killed with malice one night

His world was shattered as he shoveled in the ground

He dug a grave and laid his darling six feet down

Vengeance he declared on all who took her young life

The gun he wears is notched in mem’ry of his wife

But vengeance only grows into another flaw

Blind reason turns a man into a bad outlaw

I rode out from El Paso to track an outlaw

When we were young cowboys we both looked like our Paw

His eyes shine just like mine and we both carry guns

This outlaw and me, both of us are Daddy’s sons

This star I wear is shiny, reflecting the sun

It feels so heavy for the job that must be done

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Cielito Lindo (Larry W. Jones 01/01/2012) (song #6513)

South of the Rio in the square of Laredo

Mariachis sing Cielito Lindo in song

A senorita in the square of Laredo

Broke my heart and I’m in Mexico all alone

Al sur del Río en la plaza de Laredo

Mariachis cantan Cielito Lindo en canción

Eyes as black as midnight promised love with their glow

But now my sad plight is as dim as it can be

Here I feel contrite in the square of Laredo

I know my senorita’s been deceiving me

Tequila poured free in the square of Laredo

I stopped for awhile at Jose’s cantina door

My ears heard the sweet sound of Cielito Lindo

The same song that she said was ours forevermore

Al sur del Río en la plaza de Laredo

Mariachis cantan Cielito Lindo en canción

Then I saw her there in the square of Laredo

Dancing with a young vaquero in the night air

I challenged the vaquero whom I didn’t know

For the senorita’s love we both couldn’t share

North of the Rio and the square of Laredo

I sadly recall the bad deed that I had done

And whenever I hear sweet Cielito Lindo

Once again I see her step in front of his gun

The tale that they tell in the square of Laredo

Of a young senorita whom they all adored

Loved a Gringo there in the square of Laredo

She’ll be their Cielito Lindo forevermore

Al sur del Río en la plaza de Laredo

Mariachis cantan Cielito Lindo en canción

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