Garth Brooks Lyrics

Album: Double Live

Rodeo Lyrics

His eyes are cold and restless

 His wounds have almost healed

 And she'd give half of Texas

 Just to change the way he feels

 She knows his love's in Tulsa

 And she knows he's gonna go

 Well it ain't no woman flesh and blood

 It's that damned old rodeo

 

 Well it's bulls and blood

 It's dust and mud

 It's the roar of a Sunday crowd

 It's the white in his knuckles

 The gold in the buckle

 He'll win the next go 'round

 It's boots and chaps

 It's cowboy hats

 It's spurs and latigo

 It's the ropes and the reins

 And the joy and the pain

 And they call the thing rodeo

 

 She does her best to hold him

 When his love comes to call

 But his need for it controls him

 And her back's against the wall

 And it's So long girl I'll see you

 When it's time for him to go

 You know the woman wants her cowboy

 Like he wants his rodeo

 

 Well it's bulls and blood

 It's dust and mud

 It's the roar of a Sunday crowd

 It's the white in his knuckles

 The gold in the buckle

 He'll win the next go 'round

 It's boots and chaps

 It's cowboy hats

 It's spurs and latigo

 It's the ropes and the reins

 And the joy and the pain

 And they call the thing rodeo

 It'll drive a cowboy crazy

 It'll drive the man insane

 And he'll sell off everything he owns

 Just to pay to play her game

 And a broken home and some broken bones

 Is all he'll have to show

 For all the years that he spent chasin'

 This dream they call rodeo

 

 Well it's bulls and blood

 It's dust and mud

 It's the roar of a Sunday crowd

 It's the white in his knuckles

 The gold in the buckle

 He'll win the next go 'round

 It's boots and chaps

 It's cowboy hats

 It's spurs and latigo

 It's the ropes and the reins

 And the joy and the pain

 And they call the thing rodeo

 

 It's the broncs and the blood

 It's the steers and the mud

 And they call the thing rodeo