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.

(chorus)
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 a man
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

*chorus*
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.

*chorus*
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

• Against The Grain
• Ain't Going Down
• Alabama Clay
• American Honky-tonk Bar Association
• Anonymous
• Burning Bridges
• Callin' Baton Rouge
• Cold Shoulder
• Cowboy Bill
• Cowboys & Angels
• Dixie Chicken
• Every Now & Then
• Everytime That It Rains
• Face to Face
• Friends in Low Places
• I Know One
• I've Got a Good Thing Going
• If Tomorrow Never Comes
• In Lonesome Dove
• Ireland
• It's Midnight Cinderella
• Kickin' & Screamin'
• Learning to Live Again
• Much Too Young
• New Way to Fly
• Night Rider's Lament
• Nobody Gets Off in This Town
• Not Counting You
• One Night a Day
• Papa Loved Mama
• Rodeo
• Rollin'
• Same Old Story
• Shameless
• She's Every Woman
• Something With a Ring to It
• Somewhere Other Than The Night
• Standing Outside The Fire
• That Ol' Wind
• That Summer
• The Beaches of Cheyenne
• The Change
• The Cowboy Song
• The Dance
• The Fever
• The Night I Called The Old Man Out
• The Night Will Only Know
• The Old Stuff
• The Red Strokes
• The River
• The Thunder Rolls
• This Aint Tennessee
• To Make You Feel My Love
• Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House
• Unanswered Prayers
• Uptown Down-home Good Ol' Boy
• Victim of The Game
• Walking After Midnight
• We Bury The Hatchet
• We Shall Be Free
• What She's Doing Now
• Which One of Them
• Wild Horses
• Wolves