He was black as the sky on a moonless night

Real good with the horses never reined them too tight

He rode with the best Hell he rode with me

And they got it all wrong in that book of history



It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the devil then went for a ride



We told some tales but he told them best

Real life can always use a good stretch

But that don't change the things we did

Cause the truest thing was the life that we lived



It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the devil then went for a ride



There's more than one kind of pain

There's more than one kind of theft

It's bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept

You stole my heart age stole the fire

And they stole my prairie when they strung all that wire



It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the devil then went for a ride



We swore at the devil and went for a ride