Lyrics

CATTLE DRIVE - © 2003 Eli Stevens

The dust it choked me, I was prayin? for rain
until we had to cross the mighty Arkansas.
Lost a hundred head, lost Bill Henry too.
This was his last drive, he had swore.

Sleeping out beneath the stars,
when I?m not sleepin? in the saddle.
A dozen cowboys are my companions.
Them and a thousand head of cattle.

The only time I feel alive is my time with you, honey,
?till the next cattle drive.

I swore, Loretta, I would make you proud of me.
And I?m tryin? to save up my pay
For a little land out on the prairie.
We?ll be together some day.

Sleeping out beneath the stars,
When I?m not sleeping in the saddle.
A dozen cowboys are my companions.
Them and a thousand head of cattle.