Went for a Ride

He was black as the sky

On a moonless night

Real good with the horses

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 schoolboys 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 then went for a ride

We told some tales

He told them 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

And there was blood on the leather

And tears in her eyes

We swore at the devil

And then went for a ride

More than one kind of pain

More than one kind of theft

It's bitter as the night

Sweet Jesus wept

She stole my heart

Age stole the fire

And they stole my prairie

When they strung all that wire

It wasn't cowboys and ponies

It was horses and men

It wasn't schoolboys 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 then went for a ride

Lord, we swore at the devil

And then went for a ride