I spent several years playing country music in bars and watching cowboys try to pick up women. I can just imagine some of the things they were telling them and their wives and girlfriends back home.
Lyrics
Well I know I let you down a time or three.
And I know that there's some things
you'd like to change about me.
And I know that things are not the way
you'd like for them to be.
But that don't mean that you should set me free.
'Cause I swear that I'll get better by and by.
I can tell you've got your doubts by the look in your eye.
But honey, you can trust me
and you know the reason why.
You know that cowboys never lie.
And my pickup truck will be paid up
before the year is through.
And I don't hang around them honky-tonks
like I used to do.
And that girl you saw me talking to
was just a business deal.
You know that I've been faithful
and you know my love is real.
I'm not that kind of guy.
And cowboys never lie.
Fiddle break
Well I hope you hear these words I'm telling you.
I'd swear on a stack of bibles every one of them is true.
So honey, there's no reason to be mad or feeling blue.
I'm telling you here's what I'm gonna do.
I'll be going back to school when it starts up in the fall.
And I hang up on my poker-playing
buddies when they call.
And I'm gonna get a real job working at the factory.
I'll come home every evening and we'll sit and watch TV.
On that you can rely.
And cowboys never lie.
Fiddle break
And my days of riding bucking broncs
and Brahma bulls are through.
And I will never play guitar in a bar till half past two.
And I'll never spend my paycheck
buying all my friends a beer.
You know you can believe me
and can trust the words you hear.
You know the reason why.
'Cause cowboys never lie.
Fiddle break
No cowboys never lie.
