Starin' at the south end of north bound cattle
Slavin' in the saddle all day
You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to live your life this way
Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied
So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here
There's got to be something better up there
So what am I doing here
Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
If a cowboy's even got a prayer
And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
When things are so much better up there
Now the Lord called his angels all around the throne
Said boys I must be wastin' my time
'Cause I thought I gave the cowboy a pretty good life
Now he's complaining 'till the day he dies
Slavin' in the saddle all day
You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to live your life this way
Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied
So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here
There's got to be something better up there
So what am I doing here
Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
If a cowboy's even got a prayer
And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
When things are so much better up there
Now the Lord called his angels all around the throne
Said boys I must be wastin' my time
'Cause I thought I gave the cowboy a pretty good life
Now he's complaining 'till the day he dies
more tracks from the album
Cowboy Songs
- The Yellow Rose of Texas
- Let the Cowboy Dance
- Tying Knots in the Devil’s Tail
- Cowboy Logic
- Spanish is the Lovin’ Tongue
- Jack of Diamonds
- The Streets of Laredo
- Home on the Range
- Texas Rangers
- What Am I Doing Here
- When the Work’s All Done This Fall
- Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die / Reincarnation
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds
- Happy Trails
- Cowboy Pride
- O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Wild Ripplin’ Waters
- The Old Chisholm Trail
- Red River Valley
- Goodbye Old Paint
From the album
- Cowboy Songs (1990)
Michael Martin Murphey popular songs
- Maybe This Time
- Wildfire
- Red River Valley
- What’s Forever For
- Radio Land
- Face to Face with the Night
- The Pony Man
- Pilgrims on the Way (Matthew’s Song)
- O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Disenchanted
- Got to Pay the Fiddler
- Woodsmoke in the Wind
- Wild Ripplin’ Waters
- Pearls in the Snow
- The Running Blood
- Family Tree
- Two Step Is Easy
- Cool Water
- Rings of Life
- Two-Step ’Round The Christmas Tree
- River of Time
- I’m Gonna Miss You, Girl
- The Old Chisholm Trail
- Love Affairs