Country Song (feat. Marilyn Kroeker)

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Country Song
The barman may not know the name, but he damn well knows the type
Just another country cowboy come out looking for a fight
Or a woman's bad intentions that might help to ease the pain
Of the million mounted demons riding circles in his brain
On a Friday night in winter with his cattle put to bed
And a bottle of Jack Daniel's telling lies inside his head

Country song that's on the jukebox
With the lyrics that you know
Country song about the hard knocks
And another round to go

In a haze of beer and whiskey he'll go dancing through the night
Like a broken ballerina bathed in barbs of neon light
Or a horse that's thrown a shoe and has a hiccup in its stride
Or a bucking bareback peeler on a seven-second ride
He's a two-step John Travolta in his cowboy hat and boots
Moving every calving season so he never puts down roots

Country song that's on the jukebox
Tells the story that we live
Country song about the hard knocks
And the heartaches that we give

Now the girls are up a'dancing and the men are stepping tall
Dressed for honkey-tonk romancing 'til the barman yells last call
Then the glasses all get emptied and the bottles set aside
And the lights come up all sudden and their eyes are opened wide
Then the action moves outside to where the pickup trucks are parked
And the promises are whispered in the shadows after dark

Country song that's on the jukebox
With the lyrics that you know
Country song about the hard knocks
And another round to go

Come the morning he's awakened by the thunder in his head
And his memory of lightning with the woman in his bed
But she's gone now with the sunrise, though she's left behind a note
And he's smiling as he sits up and he reads the words she wrote:
"Fare thee well my handsome cowboy, for I could not linger long
'Cuz I'm just a rambling cowgirl like that singer in the song."

Country song that's on the jukebox
Tells the story that we live
Country song about the hard knocks
And the heartaches that we give
Country song that's on the jukebox
With the lyrics that you know
Country song about the hard knocks
And another round to go

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