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[Verse 1]
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When I was a cowboy
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Out on the western plains
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When I was a cowboy
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Out on the western plains
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I made a half a million
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Pullin' on the bridle reins
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
[Verse 2]
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Oh, de hardest battle
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Was there ever on the western plains
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Oh, de hardest battle
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Was there ever on the western plains
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When me an a bunch of cowboys
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Run into Jesse James
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
[Verse 3]
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Me an a bunch of cowboys
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Run into Jesse James
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Me an a bunch of cowboys
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Run into Jesse James
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All the bullets was a-fallin'
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Just like a shower rain
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
[Verse 4]
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Oh, de hardest battle
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Was there ever on Bunker Hill
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Oh, de hardest battle
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Was there ever on Bunker Hill
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When me an' a bunch of cowboys
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Run into Buffalo Bill
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Come a cow ki--yicky
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Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yea
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Come a ki-ki--yicky
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Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
[Bridge]
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De boys had it all in for a man on the outskirts of town,
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And there had made the horses drunk, they had made those 45's drunk,
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And the boys was already in there got drunk, and all around that mans house,
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Them horses was a walking, and them 45's was a talking,
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And it sounded best be god to that man, and here what de said:
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Your house catched a fire, and there aint no water round.
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If your house catches a fire, and there aint no water round
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Throw your jelly out the window, let the dog gone shack burn down
[Verse 5]
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Come all you cowboys
Don't you wanna go?
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Come all you cowboys
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Don't you wanna go?
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Come meet the lone rangers
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On the range of buffalo
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Come a cow ki--yicky
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Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yeah
B7
Come a cow cow yi--yicky
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Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yeah
