More songs by Charley Crockett
Description
It smells of dust, tobacco and something forgotten, like the hope that everything can still turn around. There is a crack in his voice, like on an old record, where every scratch sounds more honest than words. Once he was the first in the arena, but now he is just a man with tired hands and a memory that is still loud.
There is a special pride in the ability not to whine when life has taken away almost everything except the habit of moving on. He rolls down the motorway like an old song - a little about defeat, a little about resilience, and still with a chorus about how tomorrow, maybe, everything will work out after all.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Just a broken down cowboy, all out on his luck
Been through the best of his friends
On a long lonesome highway, in an old pickup truck
He crossed Texas like a hot dusty wind
He was all around cowboy back in '89
From the top it's been a long way down
Since the whiskey and the women started winning his time
They rode him high and hard to the ground
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's something 'bout winning that don't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be an all around cowboy again
So he rolls up a smoke and he sips his old Crow
Wipes the whiskers that cover his chin
And he smiles as he dreams of old rodeos
He's an all around cowboy again
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's something 'bout winning that don't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be an all around cowboy again
English translation
Just a broken down cowboy, all out on his luck
Been through the best of his friends
On a long lonesome highway, in an old pickup truck
He crossed Texas like a hot dusty wind
He was all around cowboy back in '89
From the top it's been a long way down
Since the whiskey and the women started winning his time
They rode him high and hard to the ground
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's something 'bout winning that don't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be an all around cowboy again
So he rolls up a smoke and he sips his old Crow
Wipes the whiskers that cover his chin
And he smiles as he dreams of old rodeos
He's an all around cowboy again
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
In the days of his first rodeo
But there's something 'bout winning that don't last forever
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
If the devil lets loose of his soul
He'll be an all around cowboy again