Lyrics Go Riding, Young Cowboy - Chris LeDoux

He stood out in the Cheyenne arena dust
By the latch on chute number four
The young cowboys were laughin' at him
And at the out of date clothes that he wore

Though his trophy buckle was old
It told of the glory he surely had seen
And the hair that showed 'neath his old John B
Was a wirey silver sheen

With a plug in his lip from his back pocket rip
And his faded old denim jeans blue
Where a halo show white like a moon in the night
Was a hole where his snoozed worn through

He spat in the dust and he violently cussed
As the bull tried to tear down the chute
Then he looked up at me with a gleam in his eye
And he placed his old hand on my boot

He said, "You'll ride this old bull on your worst ever day
With your hind leg chained to a tree
As I made ready to conquer the brute
Here's a song my old man sang to me"

Go ridin', young cowboy, go winnin' and goin' out boy
Don't let him put you on the ground
Go spur him, young cowboy, defer him, riding out boy
Show 'em that you're Oklahoma bound

Well I marked eighty points and I won me the round
The fans in the stands went plum wild
Well I could see my old daddy just a dancin' a jig
Well I looked up to the Lord and I smiled

I said, "Thanks for my good arm and thanks for my luck
And thanks that I'm still fit and young
But thanks most of all for them old bulls that buck
For my dad and the song that he sung"

Go ridin', young cowboy, go winnin' and goin' out boy
Don't let him put you on the ground
Go spur him, young cowboy, defer him, riding out boy
Show 'em that you're Oklahoma bound

Well I've been down the road many miles since that day
Things ain't changed much since I first begun
I still think of my dad when I'm ropin' one up
And I sing his song to my son

Go ridin', young cowboy, go winnin' and goin' out boy
Don't let him put you on the ground
Go spur him, young cowboy, defer him, riding out boy
Show 'em that you're Oklahoma bound

Go ridin', young cowboy, go winnin' and goin' out boy
Don't let him put you on the ground
Go spur him, young cowboy, defer him, riding out boy
Show 'em that you're Oklahoma bound