Текст песни: Shorty + перевод

when i first met up with shorty

i was sixteen and abrupt,

had been raised 'round cows and horses

thought i knew which way was up

i’d landed a job on the seven 2,

hired out to buckaroo.

i was to pull out with the wagon

and this shorty was on the crew.

he was old already

little thin and unassuming

and the flame that burned his passion

for cowboy life was all consuming

and i can’t help but remember

as i sit here and reflect

how this man who wore the blanchard spurs

had gained the crew’s respect

at night sometimes he’d talk about

his mother, school and home,

and how at fourteen years of age

he’d aimed to be a cowboy

and worked free for a ranch

mucking stalls and digging postholes

'til he’d earned himself a chance

how he’d worked in arizona

popping brush and tyin' off

spending winters on a camp job

where the trails were awful rough

how he’d come out to nevada

where he’d spent these many years

but when he’d think again of mother

his eyes would fill with tears

for he says

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