Daddy watched john wayne on a corduroy couch

I didn't know texas from a hole in the ground

But it roped me in, that's where it all began

A stick was a rifle, a bullet was a rock

The good guys won and the bad guys lost

We climbed them trees, we were wild and free

Me and my buddies ran that town.

We were cowboys

Runnin' like wild horses that couldn't be tamed

We were cowboys

Didn't know nothing but we knew everything

We never made it eight, never won a buckle

But man, we were something.

When I turned sixteen my saddle was the front seat of that 1993 silverado

On a dirt road

I was eastwood cool with a marlboro red

Aztec blanket in an eight foot bed

Earnin' braggin' rights, every saturday night

Them small town girls couldn't help but fall for us.

We were cowboys

Runnin' like wild horses that couldn't be tamed

We were cowboys

Didn't know nothing but we knew everything

We never made it eight, never won a buckle

But man, we were something, yeah...

We were cowboys.

We were cowboys

Jumpin' barbed wire fences and ropin' the wind

We were cowboys

No, ain't a thing changed since we were kids.

We were cowboys

Runnin' like wild horses that couldn't be tamed

We were cowboys

Didn't know nothing but we knew everything

We never made it eight, never won a buckle

But man, we were something

Wouldn't change nothing

Couldn't tell us nothing, 'cause man, we were something

Damn, we were something.

Mmm, we were cowboys

We were cowboys.