Cowtown

Story Behind The Song

A Stockyards historian took me for a walk one night, between sets. We went down a dark alley with cars parked everywhere, to a trashy place behind the buildings where he told me about the Indian Burial Grounds we were standing in.

Song Description

People come to the Historical Stockyards and follow the signs to the tourist traps, never getting to see the important parts: like, the Indian Burial Grounds down the alley

Song Length 2:48 Genre Country - General, Country - Contemporary
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Distressed, Welcoming Subject General, Justice
Similar Artists The Eagles, Lyle Lovett Language English
Era 1990 - 1999

Lyrics

COWTOWN
James Michael Taylor

In a courtyard down the alley
There's a graveyard weeds and litter
Where memories undisturbed await their doom
Beneath the glitter of COWTOWN

Take a building old and crooked
Long ago the life forsook it
Paint it up and name it
Since nineteen five they claim it lived in
COWTOWN

CHORUS Where the memories are cheap
And they don't run too deep
And there's no sign on the trail that leads
To the grave yard trash and weeds in
COWTOWN

Take a picture of your daughter
Up on stage with Texas Water
Dyed feathers, leather halter
And the cowboy boots you bought her in
COWTOWN

CHORUS

Instrumental break

CHORUS

Well, it's not ?cause folks are fickle
They just can't make one damn nickel
Off of something they don't own
So they leave it alone in
COWTOWN

In a courtyard down the alley
There's a graveyard, weeds and litter
Where the memories undisturbed await their doom
Beneath the glitter of
COWTOWN

 2000 Royal T Music - ASCAP

Lyrics James Michael Taylor Music James Michael Taylor
Producer James Michael Taylor Publisher Royal T Music
Performance James Michael Taylor Label TXH2O Records and Stuff, Fort Worth, Texas

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