Story Behind The Song
A cowboy passes on but he lives in memories,
Song Description
Continuity of life
| Song Length |
3:50 |
Genre |
Country - Cowboy, Country - Traditional |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Poignant, Pleased |
Subject |
Infinity, Heaven |
| Similar Artists |
Harry Nilsson |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
COWBOY IN THE CLOUD
Tommy Carter - Copyrught 2004
Verse 1
Yes, I've done more that the law has ever allowed.
Now, I's just a cowboy in the cloud.
I've loved a life of music, women and too many bars.
Sometimes tried to play lead. Never did.
But I smoked good cigars. And I played a lotta guitar.
Chorus
Now, I'm just a cowboy in the cloud. By a red and a
dusty sunset,
You may see that shape ridin' across the sky.
That's just a cowboy, a cowboy in that cloud.
Verse 2
I can sometimes see herds a-passin' across wide and
muddy rivers.
Campfires glowin' in the eve-ninbg. I can sometimes see
riders and drivers and cattle,
all a-restin', and a young cowpoke lookin' out at the sky
and askin'
Dad, what's that I see in that cloud?
Chorus
Son, it's just a------
Verse 3
From away up here in the skly, the rodeo seems
so far and yet
still so loud and oh, so bright. Seems to be a
starlit stairway.
It's always just that near, and real,
to a faded cosboy here in the cloud.
Chorus
Son, it's just a------