Lyrics

You Gotta Ride
Terry Eilers-Kincaid and Mariam
BMI 2006

Just a lil? ole? cowboy in a Texas town

Two six-shooters and a big ole? round,

Stetson, sittin? on his head


It wasn?t much in fashion, even way back then

But he didn?t care, he?d tell all his friends

You?re gonna? know someday, what I?m tryin? to say

We gotta? do, what we gotta? do

It?ll turn out different for me and you

But, it don?t matter how you get where you go

As long as you remember and you always know

Chorus

You gotta? ride, whoever you are

You gotta? ride, fast and hard

You gotta? ride, high and low

You gotta ride and never let go

You gotta? ride in the wind and ride in the rain

Ride through the trouble, ride through the pain

Ride when you?re winnin?, ride when you lose

Stay in the saddle whatever you do,

You gotta? ride

Traded his six-guns for an M-16

Viet Nam and Army green

He?d be the first to say, he never planned it that way


But after two purple hearts and a silver star

He found out, ya? won?t get to far

When you?re just a boy from Big Spring, with nothin? but a dream

But he had to do what he had to do

It?d turn out different before he was through

It didn?t matter where he had to go

He?d always remember and he?d always know

To Chorus


Well he quit the broncs and wrote a few good songs

That everybody knows and can sing along

Out there nearly every night, where the lights are bright


He might never again be all that rage

But he?s still out there on the stage

Doin? the best he can, with a five piece band

He just keeps on doin? all he can do

It turned out different before he was through

It never mattered where he had to go

He never forgot and he still knows ?. To chorus