Radney Foster - Went for a Ride lyrics

He was black as the sky on a moonless night

He was good with horses, he never reined 'em too tight

He rode with the best, hell he rode with me

And they got it all wrong in that book of history.

It wasn't cowboys and ponies

It was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies

It was cowtowns and sin.

And there was blood on the leather

And tears in her eyes

We swore at the devil

And went for a ride.

We told some tales he told em best

Real life can always use a good stretch

But that don't change the things we did

'Cause the truest thing was the life that we lived

It wasn't cowboys and ponies

it was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies

It was cowtowns and sin.

More than one kind of pain, more than one kind of theft

And its bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept

She stole my heart and stole the fire

They stole my praire when they strung all that wire.

Chorus:

It wasn't cowboys and ponies

It was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies

It was cowtowns and sin...