Cowboys are Secretly Fond of Each Other

Song lyrics of the day:

”Ten men for each woman was the rule way back when on the prairie,
And somehow those cowboys must have kept themselves warm late at night.
Cowboys are famous for getting riled up about fairies,
But I’ll tell you the reason a big strong man gets so uptight:

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Well there’s always somebody who says what the others just whisper,
And mostly that someone’s the first one to get shot down dead:
When you talk to a cowboy don’t treat him like he was a sister
Don’t mess with the lady that’s sleepin’ in each cowboy’s head.

Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other
Even though they take speed and drive pickups and shoot their big guns;
There’s many a cowboy who don’t understand the way that he feels towards his brother;
There’s many a cowboy who keeps quiet about things he’s done.”

The famous country singer Willie Nelson releases new material. It is a cover version of a twenty-year-old song written by Ned Sublette. Mr Nelson decided to record the song to honour David Anderson, his friend and tour manager of three decades, after he took the courage to come out as a gay man in the hostile environment that is the Texas panhandle and the country-music business.

Read more about it on Dallas Morning News’s website.