Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die/Reincarnation - michael martin murphey

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作曲：Biff Watson/Carl Tatz/Craig Nelson/David Hoffner/David Hoffner/Dennis Burnside/Denny Purcell/Eddie Bayer/Jerry Kroon/John McEuen/John McEuen/John McEuen/Joseph Miskulin/Mark Casstevens/Mark Casstevens/Mark O'Connor/Michael Martin Murphey/Michael Martin Murphey/Michael Rhodes/Paul Franklin/Rich Schirmer/Rich Schirmer/Sonny Garrish/Steve Gibson/Steve Gibson/Steve Gibson/Terry McMillan/Chick Rains/D/J/ O'Malley/Michael Martin Murphey/Wallace McCrae

Where do cowboys go when they die

Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye

Where the water is clean

and the grass grows free

And there ain't a cloud in the sky

What is reincarnation

A cowboy asked his friend

His friend replied Well Son It happens

when your life has reached its end

You see they comb your hair and

they wash your neck and

they clean your fingernails

And they you down in a batted box

far away from life's prevails

Now the box and you goes in a hole

that's been dug into the ground

And reincarnation starts when

you're planted beneath the mound

You see the box melts

down just like the clods( )

with you who is inside

And then you're just beginning

your transformation ride

Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye

Where do cowboys go when they die

Well in a while some rain's gonna

come and fall upon the ground

'Til one day on your lonely little

grave a little flower will be found

And say a hoss should wander by

and graze upon the flower

That once was you but now

becomes a vegetative bower

That little flower that the hoss done

ate up with all his other feed

Becomes bone and fat and muscle

essentials for the steed

But some he's consumed he can't use

so it passes through

Finally it lays there on the ground

this thing that once was you

And then say that I should wander

by and gaze upon the ground

And wonder and ponder on this

object that I've found

Well it sure makes

me think of reincarnation of

life and death and such

And I ride away concludin'

you ain't changed all that much

Where do cowboys go when they die

Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye

Where the water is clean

and the grass grows free

And there ain't a cloud in the sky