I Ain't No Cowboy
One cannot live in Idaho and write songs without taking a shot at a Country & Western thing. This is it and since I am anything but a cowboy, the words had to be this. It is a simple song and an easy one to play, as all C&W efforts seem to be. The lyrics are all true except, the hat fits fine and I still have the boots… but they are too tight! The Swiss girl is in the history book but my lady is "big city (Rio)" Brazilian. I thought of editing and redoing the words but that would set precedence for an endless chore. Better to record history. It is a fun joke of a song so the ending was necessary. The chords are E, A and B with a splash of C#m and F#. You'll figure it out.
This photo was taken years ago when I pretended slightly for a few days that I was an actual Westerner.
I Ain’t No Cowboy
I ain’t got no horse, I mean... I got no horse
I ain’t bowlegged and that makes sense of course
I don’t wear no chaps and I got no lariats
I can’t cook flapjacks or nothing like that.
I might live in Idaho but I got no ranch
And I have never camped along a Salmon’s River’s branch
I do have a Stetson that I don’t wear that much
It would block my vision but my ears hold it up
I ‘m a bit unusual and I got no complaints
I ain’t no cowboy. Nope, I surely ain’t
I ain’t got no rifle, I’ve never fired a gun
I can’t stand the rodeo. It just ain’t no fun
I wear lots of blue jeans but I can’t make them stack
I bought a pair of cowboy boots. I had to give them back.
Chorus
My woman ain’t no cowgirl but she’s quite the miss
I’s born northeast of the Mississippi and she’s Swiss.
But this is weird; she’s gaga for rockabilly Willy Braun
The only thing I can figure, it’s because… it’s not spelled Brown
Chorus
I ain’t got no mustache, I ain’t never had
I ain’t got no Ma and Pa. I did have a Mom and Dad
Some cowpokes are friends of mine. That sure is true
We enjoy our differences. Yippee KiYay, Yahoo!