Chris LeDoux
Chris LeDoux (October 2, 1948 – March 9, 2005) was an American country musi… Read Full Bio ↴Chris LeDoux (October 2, 1948 – March 9, 2005) was an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor, and hall of fame rodeo champion. During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albums (many self-released) which have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007. He was awarded two gold and one platinum album certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), was nominated for a Grammy Award, and was honored with the Academy of Country Music Music Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award. LeDoux is also the only person to participate and also perform at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
LeDoux was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on October 2, 1948. He was of French descent on his father's side. His father was in the US Air Force and was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base at the time of his birth. The family moved often when he was a child, due to his father's Air Force career. He learned to ride horses while visiting his grandparents on their Wyoming farm. At age 13, LeDoux participated in his first rodeo, and before long was winning junior rodeo competitions.
LeDoux continued to compete in rodeo events and played football through his high school years. When his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he attended Cheyenne Central High School. After twice winning the Wyoming State Rodeo Championship bareback riding title during high school, LeDoux earned a rodeo scholarship to Casper College in Casper. During his junior year at Eastern New Mexico University, LeDoux won the Intercollegiate National bareback riding Championship.
LeDoux married Peggy Rhoads on January 4, 1972. They had five children: Clay, Ned, Will, Beau, and Cindy.
In 1970, LeDoux became a professional rodeo cowboy on the national circuit. To help pay his expenses while traveling the country, he began composing songs describing his lifestyle. Within two years, he had written enough songs to make up an album, and soon established a recording company, American Cowboy Songs, with his father. After recording his songs in a friend's basement, LeDoux "began selling his tapes at rodeo events out of the back of his pickup truck".
In 1976 LeDoux won the world bareback riding championship at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City. Winning the championship gave LeDoux more credibility with music audiences, as he now had proof that the cowboy songs he wrote were authentic. LeDoux continued competing for the next four years. He retired in 1980. With his rodeo career at an end, LeDoux and his family settled on a ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming. LeDoux continued to write and record his songs, and began playing concerts. His concerts were very popular, and often featured a mechanical bull (which he rode between songs) and fireworks. By 1982 he had sold more than 250,000 copies of his albums, with little or no marketing. By the end of the decade he had self-released 22 albums.
Despite offers from various record labels, LeDoux refused to sign a recording contract, instead choosing to retain his independence and control over his work while enjoying his regional following. In 1989, however, he shot to national prominence when he was mentioned in Garth Brooks' Top 10 country hit "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)." Capitalizing on the sudden attention, LeDoux signed a contract with Capitol Records subsidiary Liberty Records and released his first national album, Western Underground, in 1991. His follow-up album, Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy, was certified gold and reached the Top 10. The title track, a duet with Brooks, became LeDoux's first and only Top 10 country single, reaching No. 7 in 1992. In concert, he ended the song by saying, "Thanks, Garth!"
For the 35th annual Grammy Awards in 1992, the single track "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" was nominated for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.
For the next decade, LeDoux continued to record for Liberty. He released six additional records, including One Road Man, which made the country Top 40 in 1998. Toward the end of his career, LeDoux began recording material written by other artists, which he attributed to the challenge of composing new lyrics. With his 2000 release, Cowboy, he returned to his roots, re-recording many of his earliest songwriting creations.
The RIAA certified two gold and one platinum recordings for LeDoux. On February 22, 1993, the single "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" went gold. On June 2, 1997, the album The Best of Chris LeDoux went gold. And on October 5, 2005, the album 20 Greatest Hits went platinum.
In August 2000, LeDoux was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, which required him to receive a liver transplant. Garth Brooks volunteered to donate part of his liver, but it was incompatible. An alternative donor was located, and LeDoux received a transplant on October 7, 2000. After his recovery he released two additional albums. In November 2004, LeDoux was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma for which he underwent radiation treatment until his death.
LeDoux died of cancer on March 9, 2005, at age 56. His funeral was held on March 11.
Official bio:
Enough tears have fallen to fill the Powder River through Kaycee, Wyoming where Chris LeDoux called home. He died of a rare form of cancer in March of 2005. During his all-too-short 56 years of life, LeDoux was indeed a rare breed. Beloved by the rodeo world, LeDoux’s music captured the spirit of the sport - and of the American West - as few will ever likely match. The young Chris put pen to paper often. Poem after poem reflected his love of rodeo and of a young girl, Peggy, who would become his wife and bear him five children. His sense of humor and self-deprecating manner were constants even in the most painful of times. Besides writing words to become songs, Chris liked to sketch cartoons ala Charlie Russell and “Ole Chuck” would have been honored to ride alongside LeDoux. Many heroes don’t quite live up to their reputations. This Wyoming, and rodeo, hero outshined them all. A practical joke player extraordinaire, who would not intentionally hurt even the squirrels on the golf course, Chris will forever be thought of with a certain amount of reverence in these parts. There is a hole in Wyoming’s heart.
He was world champion professional bareback rider in 1976. When speaking about that accomplishment LeDoux chuckled recalling his bounty. “I won a saddle and a buckle and I got a hat and a pair of boots – and a little bit of money. The money’s gone. The boots are worn out. The hat’s gone – someone bit a big chunk out of it at Fort Worth that next winter. I still have the saddle and the buckle. But that championship gave me credibility in the music that I’m doing and helped tremendously,” LeDoux believed. His stage act came to represent a rodeo complete with mechanical bull, pyrotechnics, and pulsating energy that kept standing-room-only crowds on their feet for two hours – always howling for more. The moment the net fell and the first strains of “Copenhagen” rang out is one all Chris LeDoux fans cherished. Flinging tins was a sport in itself. It was a way to show love too, sort of like resting a bunch of roses at Barbara Streisand’s feet. Forgive the comparison but it is just the kind of image that would make Chris smile and say, “Yeah.”
His interest in rodeo stemmed from a childhood in Texas surrounded by friends and neighbors for whom rodeo was a way of life. LeDoux decided to give it a try, won a buckle, and was “bitten by the bug.” The family moved to Wyoming where rodeo continued to peak his interest. Before he gave much thought to girls or hot cars, Chris LeDoux dreamt of becoming a rodeo champ. He wrote his classic tune “Bareback Jack” while a student at Casper College. His mom had bought a guitar for Chris at Jay’s Music Store in Cheyenne a few years earlier. He first strummed and sang along to Marty Robbins “Big Iron.” He had many rodeo stars to gaze upon while living in Cheyenne and musicians then started to gain his attention. Favorites included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Charlie Daniels. “I started listening to country music and loved it. I wanted to be able to play the guitar and sing some of those songs,” LeDoux remembered.
Football competed for some of his extracurricular time while at Central High School in Cheyenne but it was always Cheyenne Frontier Days that gave him “Gold Buckle Dreams.” His bareback riding skills rose measurably as fellow contestants offered pointers. Soon Chris LeDoux was among the top riders. He could have chosen many different paths during that period in the late 1960s and 70s but decided a wife and family – settling in rural Wyoming – was the best course for his life. A successful rodeo career was overtaken by music. Hundreds of songs about the West, cowboy and rodeo life, and love ensued. It was Garth Brooks who kicked things up several notches by singing the line “Worn out tapes of Chris LeDoux” in Brooks’ 1989 hit “Much Too Young (to Feel This Damn Old).” Almost immediately millions more fans of Chris launched a career that brought recognition and a degree of fame well outside the rodeo world.
Writing songs became more work than fun and Chris would come to depend on others for many of his recordings during the latter part of his long musical journey. “Writing to me is like sitting in a room by yourself all day pulling one hair out a time. I did enough of that. I’m ready to enjoy other things - be outside,” he said. He would get back home to the Kaycee ranch often and when there fix fence and do ranch chores his father-in-law saved for him. “I’m usually home calving time,” LeDoux recalled. “I kind of wish I was out on the road then.”
Another passion entered LeDoux’s life in the latter half of the 1990s. Golf. That surprised the cowboy musician. “I hate to admit it. I cussed the game for years. But it’s addicting. I don’t understand it. Maybe it’s just the nice little parks you get to walk through.”
Aren’t we glad he walked through our lives? More like leaped, and sang, and helped teach us to believe there is a lot of good out there we can do for others while at the same time enriching our own souls beyond measure.
Chris LeDoux’s band, Western Underground, carries on in his honor. Guitar player, and road manager, Mark Sissel stood by Chris’s side for 16 years. “It was like getting up every morning and walking down the road with John Wayne. The only difference was there was no on-screen/off-screen. Chris was the same every day – an extraordinary person; an exceptional man,” Sissel told the crowd at the first annual Tribute to Chris LeDoux in Casper, Wyo. last fall.
LeDoux was born in Biloxi, Mississippi on October 2, 1948. He was of French descent on his father's side. His father was in the US Air Force and was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base at the time of his birth. The family moved often when he was a child, due to his father's Air Force career. He learned to ride horses while visiting his grandparents on their Wyoming farm. At age 13, LeDoux participated in his first rodeo, and before long was winning junior rodeo competitions.
LeDoux continued to compete in rodeo events and played football through his high school years. When his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he attended Cheyenne Central High School. After twice winning the Wyoming State Rodeo Championship bareback riding title during high school, LeDoux earned a rodeo scholarship to Casper College in Casper. During his junior year at Eastern New Mexico University, LeDoux won the Intercollegiate National bareback riding Championship.
LeDoux married Peggy Rhoads on January 4, 1972. They had five children: Clay, Ned, Will, Beau, and Cindy.
In 1970, LeDoux became a professional rodeo cowboy on the national circuit. To help pay his expenses while traveling the country, he began composing songs describing his lifestyle. Within two years, he had written enough songs to make up an album, and soon established a recording company, American Cowboy Songs, with his father. After recording his songs in a friend's basement, LeDoux "began selling his tapes at rodeo events out of the back of his pickup truck".
In 1976 LeDoux won the world bareback riding championship at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City. Winning the championship gave LeDoux more credibility with music audiences, as he now had proof that the cowboy songs he wrote were authentic. LeDoux continued competing for the next four years. He retired in 1980. With his rodeo career at an end, LeDoux and his family settled on a ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming. LeDoux continued to write and record his songs, and began playing concerts. His concerts were very popular, and often featured a mechanical bull (which he rode between songs) and fireworks. By 1982 he had sold more than 250,000 copies of his albums, with little or no marketing. By the end of the decade he had self-released 22 albums.
Despite offers from various record labels, LeDoux refused to sign a recording contract, instead choosing to retain his independence and control over his work while enjoying his regional following. In 1989, however, he shot to national prominence when he was mentioned in Garth Brooks' Top 10 country hit "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)." Capitalizing on the sudden attention, LeDoux signed a contract with Capitol Records subsidiary Liberty Records and released his first national album, Western Underground, in 1991. His follow-up album, Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy, was certified gold and reached the Top 10. The title track, a duet with Brooks, became LeDoux's first and only Top 10 country single, reaching No. 7 in 1992. In concert, he ended the song by saying, "Thanks, Garth!"
For the 35th annual Grammy Awards in 1992, the single track "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" was nominated for Best Country Vocal Collaboration.
For the next decade, LeDoux continued to record for Liberty. He released six additional records, including One Road Man, which made the country Top 40 in 1998. Toward the end of his career, LeDoux began recording material written by other artists, which he attributed to the challenge of composing new lyrics. With his 2000 release, Cowboy, he returned to his roots, re-recording many of his earliest songwriting creations.
The RIAA certified two gold and one platinum recordings for LeDoux. On February 22, 1993, the single "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" went gold. On June 2, 1997, the album The Best of Chris LeDoux went gold. And on October 5, 2005, the album 20 Greatest Hits went platinum.
In August 2000, LeDoux was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, which required him to receive a liver transplant. Garth Brooks volunteered to donate part of his liver, but it was incompatible. An alternative donor was located, and LeDoux received a transplant on October 7, 2000. After his recovery he released two additional albums. In November 2004, LeDoux was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma for which he underwent radiation treatment until his death.
LeDoux died of cancer on March 9, 2005, at age 56. His funeral was held on March 11.
Official bio:
Enough tears have fallen to fill the Powder River through Kaycee, Wyoming where Chris LeDoux called home. He died of a rare form of cancer in March of 2005. During his all-too-short 56 years of life, LeDoux was indeed a rare breed. Beloved by the rodeo world, LeDoux’s music captured the spirit of the sport - and of the American West - as few will ever likely match. The young Chris put pen to paper often. Poem after poem reflected his love of rodeo and of a young girl, Peggy, who would become his wife and bear him five children. His sense of humor and self-deprecating manner were constants even in the most painful of times. Besides writing words to become songs, Chris liked to sketch cartoons ala Charlie Russell and “Ole Chuck” would have been honored to ride alongside LeDoux. Many heroes don’t quite live up to their reputations. This Wyoming, and rodeo, hero outshined them all. A practical joke player extraordinaire, who would not intentionally hurt even the squirrels on the golf course, Chris will forever be thought of with a certain amount of reverence in these parts. There is a hole in Wyoming’s heart.
He was world champion professional bareback rider in 1976. When speaking about that accomplishment LeDoux chuckled recalling his bounty. “I won a saddle and a buckle and I got a hat and a pair of boots – and a little bit of money. The money’s gone. The boots are worn out. The hat’s gone – someone bit a big chunk out of it at Fort Worth that next winter. I still have the saddle and the buckle. But that championship gave me credibility in the music that I’m doing and helped tremendously,” LeDoux believed. His stage act came to represent a rodeo complete with mechanical bull, pyrotechnics, and pulsating energy that kept standing-room-only crowds on their feet for two hours – always howling for more. The moment the net fell and the first strains of “Copenhagen” rang out is one all Chris LeDoux fans cherished. Flinging tins was a sport in itself. It was a way to show love too, sort of like resting a bunch of roses at Barbara Streisand’s feet. Forgive the comparison but it is just the kind of image that would make Chris smile and say, “Yeah.”
His interest in rodeo stemmed from a childhood in Texas surrounded by friends and neighbors for whom rodeo was a way of life. LeDoux decided to give it a try, won a buckle, and was “bitten by the bug.” The family moved to Wyoming where rodeo continued to peak his interest. Before he gave much thought to girls or hot cars, Chris LeDoux dreamt of becoming a rodeo champ. He wrote his classic tune “Bareback Jack” while a student at Casper College. His mom had bought a guitar for Chris at Jay’s Music Store in Cheyenne a few years earlier. He first strummed and sang along to Marty Robbins “Big Iron.” He had many rodeo stars to gaze upon while living in Cheyenne and musicians then started to gain his attention. Favorites included Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Charlie Daniels. “I started listening to country music and loved it. I wanted to be able to play the guitar and sing some of those songs,” LeDoux remembered.
Football competed for some of his extracurricular time while at Central High School in Cheyenne but it was always Cheyenne Frontier Days that gave him “Gold Buckle Dreams.” His bareback riding skills rose measurably as fellow contestants offered pointers. Soon Chris LeDoux was among the top riders. He could have chosen many different paths during that period in the late 1960s and 70s but decided a wife and family – settling in rural Wyoming – was the best course for his life. A successful rodeo career was overtaken by music. Hundreds of songs about the West, cowboy and rodeo life, and love ensued. It was Garth Brooks who kicked things up several notches by singing the line “Worn out tapes of Chris LeDoux” in Brooks’ 1989 hit “Much Too Young (to Feel This Damn Old).” Almost immediately millions more fans of Chris launched a career that brought recognition and a degree of fame well outside the rodeo world.
Writing songs became more work than fun and Chris would come to depend on others for many of his recordings during the latter part of his long musical journey. “Writing to me is like sitting in a room by yourself all day pulling one hair out a time. I did enough of that. I’m ready to enjoy other things - be outside,” he said. He would get back home to the Kaycee ranch often and when there fix fence and do ranch chores his father-in-law saved for him. “I’m usually home calving time,” LeDoux recalled. “I kind of wish I was out on the road then.”
Another passion entered LeDoux’s life in the latter half of the 1990s. Golf. That surprised the cowboy musician. “I hate to admit it. I cussed the game for years. But it’s addicting. I don’t understand it. Maybe it’s just the nice little parks you get to walk through.”
Aren’t we glad he walked through our lives? More like leaped, and sang, and helped teach us to believe there is a lot of good out there we can do for others while at the same time enriching our own souls beyond measure.
Chris LeDoux’s band, Western Underground, carries on in his honor. Guitar player, and road manager, Mark Sissel stood by Chris’s side for 16 years. “It was like getting up every morning and walking down the road with John Wayne. The only difference was there was no on-screen/off-screen. Chris was the same every day – an extraordinary person; an exceptional man,” Sissel told the crowd at the first annual Tribute to Chris LeDoux in Casper, Wyo. last fall.
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A Cowboy Well there's always been groups of people that never could…
A Cowboy Like Me Just barely eighteen when the Great War was through Ridin' …
A Cowboy was Born She was holding her breath and he attempted a prayer And…
A Cowboy's Got To Ride Well you mama finds it hard to understand, Why her lovin'…
A Little Money Honey Every time the end of the month, finally rolls our…
Ain You've finally arrived at the goals that you set You thought…
Ain't No Place For A Country Boy I pack my clothes in a cardboard box and mama…
All Around Cowboy Just a broken down cowboy All down on his luck…
All Around Cowboy Of '64 Folks used to think that I could ride any bronc…
All My Heroes Have Been Cowboys I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy Lovin' the cowboy…
All Wound Up Since I was a baby, maybe two or three Ain't nothing…
Amarillo By Moring Amarillo by morning Up from San Antone Everything that I've …
Back When We Was Kids Well I grew up in the shadow of the Rockies…
Bad Brahma Bull I was snappin' out broncs at the Old Flyin' you At…
Ballad Of Will Rogers He was born and raised in Oklahoma his blood lines…
Bang A Drum I went to see the preacher, to teach me how…
Bareback Jack When I was just a very young lad I walked…
Bars Shouldn Boots and a buckle jukebox and a bottle Old rodeo cowboy…
Between the Rainbows and the Rain It's good to hear your voice after all this time I've…
Big Love You need a man to get lost it With a heart…
Billy The Kid In the southern part of Texas, east and west of…
Blue Bonnet Blues Well, there's a special place in my memory, Where I keep…
Blue Eyes And Freckles Blue eyes and frcles neath a white cowboy hat His…
Born In Mississippi I was born in Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico And…
Born To Follow Rodeo Faded old blue wranglers dusty cowboy hat pair of scuffed…
Bull Rider I was sittin' the a bar-room one rainy afternoon Tellin' sto…
Busted All the bills are all due And the baby needs shoes,…
Caballo Diablo Wild as a coastal barronca swift as the wind blowing…
Cadillac Cowboy Hold tight with a leather fist Watch out when he starts…
Cadillac Ranch Well the well went dry and the cow did too And…
Calico Moon The Calico Moon was rising that night Shining like gold on…
Call Of The Wild Storm clouds are building above the timber line The lightnin…
Colorado I look out to the east of the Colorado sky The…
Copenhagen Copenhagen It makes me feel so good Copenhagen The way I kno…
Copenhagen Angel Well she rolls her own cigarettes with the work of…
Copenhagen Junkie Well I've never been afraid of much and never thought…
Country Star She opened up the letter from Nashville Tennessee He said ho…
County Fair Been workin' like a dawg, slavin' on the fence line, Stretch…
Cowboy Well there's always been groups of people that never could…
Cowboy And The Rose He's rugged rough and ready his lady's soft and pretty There…
Cowboy In The Continental Suit He walked out in the arena all dressed up to…
Cowboy Songs Well I wake up in the mornin', I brew my…
Cowboy Up I was a new kid on the circuit Gold buckles in…
Cowboys Ain I know I hurt you but I never meant to It's…
Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll Well, now cowboys love the ladies They like beans and sour…
Cowboys Songs Well I wake up in the mornin', I brew my…
Cowcamp Blues The moon is shinnin' down through the pines And it spreads…
Daddy's Biggest Dream I parked my old pickup behind the holdin' fence and…
Dallas Days And Fort Worth Nights Under the skies of old Big D he works a…
Daydream Cowboy I'm sittin' in a city filled with people cars and…
Desperado Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You been out…
Dirt And Sweat Cowboy Well Lord I love this ranchin' with it's ropin' and…
Don I've been gone for so long, Feels so good just to…
Dream On Cowboy Braided rope saddle soap rosin for his riggin' A young man…
Easy Come Easy Go This old highway, she's hotter than nine kinds of hell And…
Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock & Roll Well now cowboys love the ladies they like beans and…
Every Time I Roll The Dice She got a roof that don't leak When the rain's pourin'…
Fathers and Sons My father had so much to tell me things he…
Feels Like I'm Gettin' into Something Good [Chorus] Feel like I'm gettin' into something good Don't wan…
Fine As Wine Sweeter than the grapes growin' out in California Softer tha…
Five Dollar Fine We're a fun lovin' crowd, kinda rowdy and loud Our jukebox…
For Your Love For your love I'd rope the moon And put it In a blender Mix…
Fourth Of July Rodeos Just about two hundred years ago they signed that declaratio…
Freedom Ain You've finally arrived at the goals that you set You thought…
Freedom Just A State Of Mind When the freedom you've know has left you a broken…
Get Back On That Pony Seven years old on a gold palomino I sat up…
Go Riding Young Cowboy He stood out in the Cheyenne area dust by the…
Goin I'm a goin and a blowin' and a heading down…
Grange Hall Dance Have you ever been down to a country dance And listend…
Gravitational Pull It's a source of speculation Mornin' noon and night Who is a…
Hairtrigger Colt's .44 I'm a man who's goin' to hell with heaven's blessing The…
Hard Times The ole man stand by the lone chute, he sold…
He Rides The Wild Horses Just a rodeo drifter, he comes and he goes, Like a…
He's A Tryer He′s a rider, keeps ridin' all he can ′cause he's…
Hippies In Calgary Well a few years back me and ol' John worked…
Homecoming While driving down the last four miles of gravel road…
Homegrown Western Saturday Night There's a place out west where the Powder River runs off…
Hometown Cowboy He was just a hometown cowboy his belly kind of…
Honky Tonk World There used to be a time candlelight and wine was…
Hooked On An 8 Second Ride Rolling down a long highway Out through New Mexico Drifting …
Horsepower I was born in a hurry but there wasn't any…
Horses And Cattle My home's in Montana, i wear a bandana, My spurs are…
I Girl, I recognize the smoke in your eyes I've seen it…
I Believe In America This country's seen some hard times, lord knows she's deep…
I Can't Ride The Broncs Anymore Well a man can't spend his life in reflection, Just thinkin'…
I Do It For Me Meet a rodeo cowboy in Billings killing time trading stories…
I Don I've got a story to tell, would you mind listening I…
I Don't Want To Be A Cowboy Anymore I used to want to be a cowboy Spent my childhood…
I Don't Want To Mention Any Names I've got a story to tell, would you mind listening I…
I Got You We'll I've been up and I've been down I've been…
I Used To Want To Be A Cowboy I used to want to be a cowboy Spent my childhood…
I Would For You Darling I need my freedom I've been my own man so…
I'll Get The Job Done Down on your luck lookin' for an answer Why does love…
I'm Country I'm country Well there's a little word and it fits me…
I'm Ready If You're Willing There's a big bright moon above and the night's just…
I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man Sometimes this old road get's so damn lonesome away from…
It Ain I walked behind the chute, stapped my spurs to my…
It Ain't the Years, It's the Miles I walked behind the chute, strapped my spurs to my…
Jeans and Good Leather White shirts and neckties the way that my check flies Are…
Joade The Rodeo Clown Gather round boys and a tale I will tell about…
John Ed Sang Cowpoke When the rodeo was over, we're all go to the…
Johnson County War Headed for Wyoming, in 1882..a woman, a team, and a…
Just Enough Money Honey Every time the end of the month, finally rolls our…
Just Riding Through Pack up your old guitar cowboy roll up your old…
Lean Mean And Hungry Well I'm lean mean and hungry rude crude and dirty The…
Let's All Help The Cowboys Cowboys they are ladies men all right they'll love 'em…
Life Is A Highway Life's like a road that you travel on When there's one…
Light Of The World In a lonely all night diner on a rainy city…
Little Joe The Wrangler Little Joe the wrangler he'll wrangle never more His days wi…
Little Long Haired Outlaw Well I have been a cowboy dang near all my…
Littlest Cowboy Rides Again He's got a broomstick horse called, Dynamite his very favori…
Long Black Veil Ten years ago on a cool, dark night There was someone…
Look At You Girl Just look at you, girl Standin' here beside me Starlight on…
Love Needs a Fool She lives for the thunder, he lives for the rain She…
Making Ends Meet He left for work and he never came back now…
Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys Don't…
Melodies And Memories Ain't it funny how an ole song can take you…
Mighty Lucky Man Well, I figure myself a mighty luck man with the…
Millionaire They say love, is more precious than gold, It can't be…
Mountain Wild There was a man that lived in the hills all…
National Finals Rodeo A rodeo's just a rodeo after riding several years From ol'…
Navajo Wrangler Between Gallup and Shiprock he was born in a Hogan And…
New Breed Who ever thought that cowboys would change their clean cut…
Night Rider While I was out a ridin' The grave yard shift, midnight…
Not For Heroes There are songs about the heroes and the great things…
Now That All you have to do now baby Is pull on my…
Oklahoma Joe He prayed upon the bad ones so wide was spread…
Old Jake Now old Jake was a cowboy he'd worked his whole…
Old Paint I ride an old paint I lead an old Dan I'm…
Old Tom Horn Now back in old Wyoming, many long years ago When there…
Ole Slew Foot Well high on the mountain, boys tell you what I…
One Less Tornado Billy John grew up just west of Waco He used to…
One Ride In Vegas He's packed up his boots and his saddle Seventeen, headin' …
One Road Man Sometimes this old road get's so damn lonesome away from…
One Tonight Girl, I recognize the smoke in your eyes I've seen it…
Our First Year The winter wind was blowin' when we loaded that old…
Paint Me Back Home In Wyoming She was painting a picture of slum life when the…
Pass My Hat Would you please pass my hat It's gettin late, I've got…
Photo Finish At seven this morning I got on the phone And said…
Powder River Home There's a full moon risin' in the prairie sky tonight Lord…
Rainbow Rider Well the sun came up this mornin', my ain't it…
Raised By The Railroad The clickety sound of the southbound freight And the high sp…
Real Live Buckeroo Well I ain't the type of cowboy that you'll see…
Red Headed Stranger Now the redheaded stranger, from Blue Rock, Montana Rode in…
Rhinestone Cowboy I've been walkin' these streets so long Singin' the same old…
Riders In The Sky An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy…
Riding For A Fall Last night you told her That you could never hold her, 'Caus…
River Boat Gambler I cut my teeth on a poker chip my daddy…
Rock And Roll Christmas Well now cowboys love the ladies they like beans and…
Rodeo Life I suppose, there's a better way to make a livin' To…
Rodeo Moon I took her daddy's old two-horse trailer I patched a place…
Rodeo Rose When I first saw you I din't think you were…
Rodeo You've Cast A Spell White lines go flash-in by me as I wonder where…
Runaway Love Blue bonnets line a hundred miles of Texas highway All the…
Running Through Last night we rode our broncs in Seattle, Me and bill…
Rusty Spurs Rusty spurs a hangin' from a nail their on the…
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town I just came back from a lovely trip along the…
Searching For A Rainbow (Put your hands together and start making some noise And let…
Settin' The Woods On Fire Comb your hair, paint and powder You act proud, and I'll…
Seventeen When he was five years old his mom took him…
She Well, I was lookin' for just a little bit more Than…
She's In Love With A Rodeo Man She's a barmaid in a west Texas dance hall She's there…
She's Tough Well, I was lookin' for just a little bit more Than…
Shot Full Of Love Once I had a heart cold as ice love to…
Silence On The Line Took my last fall in San Diego Bus headed north one…
Silver Tongued Devil I took myself down to the Tally Ho Tavern To buy…
Simple As Dirt Been like a rolling wheel in these fertile fields Since I…
Six Bucks a Day I've been ramblin' out Montana way Tryin' to live on a…
Slow Down Well I used to laugh with an old friend till…
Smack Dab in the Middle Lately I've been feelin' funny My head's a-spinnin' and my k…
So You Want To Be A Cowboy So you wanna be a cowboy and you wanna rodeo Well…
Soft Place To Fall I rode off into the sunset The way cowboys always do But…
Some Things Never Change Rising times at five, the red sun is still sleeping, My…
Something In The Wind There's something in the wind that's blowin' through my soul…
Sometimes You've Just Gotta Ride His name was Twister he lived in the pasture Right down…
Song Of The Yukon Rose There's a place on the yukon river, called the carriboux…
Song Of Wyoming I'm weary and tired I've done my day's ridin' Nighttime is…
Sons Of The Pioneers Well way out west where the wild wind blows the…
Stampede We made camp along the river Watch the cattle As they bend…
Strawberry Roan Let me tell you a tale and a good one…
Strugglin' Years We had our fill of old junk cars and unpaid…
Sweet Wyoming Home There's a silence on the prairie; that a man can't…
Take Me Back To Old Wyoming The nights get mighty lonesome out here on the road Pickin'…
Take Me To The Rodeo Well my car broke down it's in the ditch wish…
Ten Seconds In The Saddle Well I'll gladly take ten seconds in the saddle For a…
Tennessee Stud Along about eighteen twenty five I left Tennessee very much…
Thank The Cowboy For The Ride Well he was pushing seven she was barely five He rode…
That All you have to do now baby Is pull on my…
That's What Loving You Means To Me Hey, I'm a man, I'm a guy, I'm a dude I'm…
The Blizzard There's a blizzard comin' on how I'm wishin' I was…
The Borderline In a cloud of dust 'cross Texas, south of San…
The Bucking Machine I've rode lots of horses and I've won a few…
The Buckskin Lady Now, I've got a pony, the fastest thing around, And of…
The Buffalo Grass Its been 45 days since the snows have begun I stare…
The Double Diamond The ol' Double Diamond lay out east of Dubois in…
The Feeling Comes Back I hung it all up 'cause I'd had enough of…
The Fever He's got a split finger wrap And his rope's pulled way…
The Greatest Prize I rodeoed on the circuit for nearly fifteen years To reach…
The Lady Is Dancing With Me I was waltzin' with my darlin' at the cattleman's ball. Lost…
The Last Drive-In Caravan of yellow wire and crawling across the plains Rolli…
The Lawman Reverend Brown I can still recall the day my uncle Chester caught…
The Life Of A Rodeo Cowboy Well it really has been nice bein' with ya but…
The Littles Cowboy Rides Again He's got a broomstick horse called, Dynamite his very favori…
the Man With the Bag She's a barmaid in a west Texas dance hall She's there…
The Only Road You Know The rodeo is over and the crowd has all gone…
The Real Thing His boots are old and tattered his Stetson has seen…
The Ride Since I saw that rodeo in 1965 I had to try…
The Rodeo Life I suppose, there's a better way to make a livin' To…
The Winner When he was a boy dreamed of bein' a man Probably…
The Yellow Stud Somewhere on the prairie a yellow stud runs free Runnin' th…
Them Bareback Horses Them bareback horses are the only thing They make your back…
There's Nobody Home On The Range Anymore The old man used to dream of the fortunes he'd…
They Couldn't Understand My Cowboy Songs I left home with a suitcase my songs and my…
Thirty Dollar Cowboy I'm just a workin' cowboy this ranch I'm on ain't…
This Cowboy Well there's always been groups of people that never could…
Tie A Knot In The Devil Way up high in the Sierra peaks where the yellow…
Time The cool fall breeze is blowin' and the leaves are…
Too Old To Play Cowboy Boots spurs and a pearl handle cap pistol and a…
Too Tough To Die Now don't you try to tell me the West is…
Tougher Than The Rest Well it's Saturday night, Your all dressed up in blue. I've …
True Western Movie She saw him for the first time in that open…
Two In A Million In a world of losers, filled with wrong turns Where so…
Under This Old Hat I never was the kind to wear my feelings on…
Utah Tribute Stared out just a young cowboy writin' songs on a…
Watcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy I can see you got your eye on this old…
Western Skies The Nashville friends think I'm strange to make my home…
What More Could A Cowboy Need Well I spent half my life out on the highway Chasin'…
Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy I can see you got your eye on this old…
When I Say Forever Talk is so cheap anybody can say They're gonna give you…
When The Rodeo Comes To Town Most of the time, things are pretty sublime in this…
Where Is The Glory When I was a lad an old cowboy told me…
Wife Behind The Cowboy There's lots of pretty cowgirls but this you may not…
Wild And Wooly I've been workin' all week long out in the saddle I…
Workin Well, I'm just a Workin' Man's Dollar In the pocket…
Working Cowboy Blues Discouraged is the word these days at homes acros the…
Wyoming Girl I saw her for the first time when the snow…
Yellow Brick Road Turns Blue You say that somewhere over the rainbow, There's a star that…
You Just Can Well you don't see him much on the big screen…
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