Tex Ritter - Cowboy's Prayer

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Artist: Tex Ritter
Album: Chuck Wagon Days
Song: Cowboy's Prayer
Year: 1969
Genre: Folk, World, & Country

Lyrics:
Cowboy's Prayer

Roll on little doggies
Roll on
Last night as I lay on the prairie
And looked at the stars in the sky
I wondered if ever a cowboy
Would drift to that sweet by and by
Rolling through the bright happy region
Is a dim narrow trail so they say
But the bright one that leads to perdition
Is posted and blazed all the way
Roll on, Roll on, (Roll on)
Little Doggies, Roll on

Oh, Lord I aint never lived where churches grow
I liked creation better as it stood
That day you finished it so long ago
And looked upon your work and called it good
I know that others find you in the light
That sifted down through tinted window panes
And yet I seem to feel you near tonight
In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains
I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well
That you've made my freedom so complete
That I'm no slave of whistle, clock or bell
Or weak eyed prisoner of Wall and Street
Just let me live my life as I've begun
And give me work that's open to the sky
Make me a partner of the wind and sun
And I won't ask a life that's soft or high
Let me be easy on the man that's down
Let me be square and generous with all
I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town
But never let them say I'm mean or small
Make me as big and open as the plains
As honest as the horse between my knees
Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains
Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze
Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget
You know about the reasons that are hid
You understand the things that gall and fret
Why, you knew me better than my mother did
Just keep an eye on all that's done and said
Just right me sometimes when I turn aside
And lead me on that long, dim trail ahead
That stretches upward toward the great divide
Roll on Little Doggies
Roll On