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They like they was Rangers as they came out of the skies They had High-Tech horses beacons in their eyes My gun was cocked and when I looked into their face I seen they just weren't common buck-a-roos born of the human race No, sir, Cowboys came from space
Their shootin' shot laser light and their spurs was anodized Bandanas caked with and their jeans was pressurized he handed me a halter, said, "Tighten up the girth." But before I hit the saddle we were miles the Earth. And I MILES above the Earth
I seen London, Paris, Budapest, Kashmir and And there ain't no sight a desert night looking down on Mexico To the Moons of Mars and Jupiter, Saturn's rings we rode Past the frozen plains of Pluto where even the cold Man, I do mean
Then our interstellar stallions through the starless void was nothing to miss in that emptiness, not even a stray asteroid So we up the trail of a comet tail, man, you can't even DREAM that far And the beat like the rhythm of an old catgut guitar the strummin' of a distant star
Well, it could have lasted minutes or a thousand years When they got me down, I was safe and sound and it hadn't even popped my And they reared on their broncos and they shot a bolt of light I knew they were the good guys, yes, sir. you got it 'Cause their cowboy was White
So I asked 'em as they pulled their reins towards the sun I said, "Before you go, I'd like to know, just you boys come from?" Well they opened up a star chart and said, "right here where 'X' is It's the biggest in Outer Space, the planet known as Texas"