These Cowboys By Gretchen Peters and Tom Russell Written Tom Dundee 3/24/2012 D G He's a cowboy, he was raised in Ohio A D He got married and moved further west D G Showed up on time for a few awful years A D And one night he got drunk and he left G Drove a truck for a while up in Fargo A D But he never got used to the smoke D G He once tried to settle and get some work A D But he's still just as wild, just as broke Chorus A D The range has been settled for years now E7 A The old wranglers past on with their kind D G But every now and then, you run into these men A D These cowboys born out of their time For some change he'll remember your birth place Cause there's hardly a town he ain't been You can get up and leave anytime that you please That's one thing that he understands Chorus Instrumental break He lives out his years out in Denver His best friend is a bottle of wine And you don't need to ask anything of his past It's asleep in the back of his mind As the sun rises over the Rockies So strange that he don't even care When it burns out and sets down in Kansas He takes the fences around Larimor Square Chorus