All I’Ll Ever Be

Do you remember when teachers would ask us
What we'd grow up to be?
My friends would all say police and lawyers
Doctors with PhDs
But when it came down to me

I said I'm gonna be like my grandpa and dad
Raising hell with a rope in my hand
And I'll ride 'til the work all gets done
And go on and break cowgirls' hearts
'Cause a cowboy is all I'll ever be

I spent many nights under West Texas skies
With a rock for a pillow and dirt for a bed
I stay out of sight of them big city lights
And all of the people who say this way of life's dead

'Cause I'm gonna be like my grandpa and dad
Raising hell with a rope in my hand
And I'll ride 'til the work all gets done
And go on and break cowgirls' hearts
As a cowboy is all I'll ever be

I said I'm gonna be like my grandpa and dad
Raising hell with a rope in my hand
And I'll ride 'til the work all gets done
And go on and break cowgirls' hearts
'Cause a cowboy is all
I said a cowboy is all I'll ever be

That's all I'm ever gonna be