Y'all Come Back Saloon

She played tambourine with a silver jingle

And she must have known the words to at least a million tunes

But the one most requested by the man she knew as Cowboy

Was the late night benediction at the Y'all Come Back Saloon

In a voice soft and trembling, she'd sing her song to Cowboy

As a smokey halo circled round her raven hair

And all the fallen angels and pinball-playin' rounders

Stopped the games that they'd been playin'

For the losers' evening prayer

Faded love and faded memories

How they linger in her mind

Miles and years played the cowboy

Like an old melody

Out of tune

And out of time

Every night in the shadows, thinking back on Amarillo

He'd dream of better days and ask for faded love

Liftin' high his glass in honor of the lady and her song

He paid his check then lonely walked that broken cowboy home

She played tambourine with a silver jingle

And she must have known the words to at least a million tunes

But the one most requested by the man she knew as Cowboy

Was the late night benediction at the Y'all Come Back Saloon

She played tambourine with a silver jingle

And she must have known the words to at least a million tunes

But the one most requested by the man she knew as Cowboy

Was the late night benediction at the Y'all Come Back Saloon

She played tambourine with a silver jingle

And she must have known the words to at least a million tunes

But the one most requested by the man she knew as Cowboy

Was the late night benediction at the Y'all Come Back Saloon

Well, she played