Rocky, I'm writing you this letter
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I'm in the Sunset Home
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My grandkids went and put me here
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They got everything I own
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I know you're out in Albuquerque
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I saw Freddie just last week
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He said your eyesight's failing you
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And your mouth's too sore to speak
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Rocky, I've been thinking lately
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How we never got along
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How mostly I was right
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And sometimes I was wrong
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Remember that horse we bought in Tulsa
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It was afraid of the startin' gun
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You'd fill his ears full of cotton
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And all the money that we won
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Rocky, you sure were a good cowboy
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You did sure could rope and ride
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I always told you not to chew that goddamned tobacco
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You coulda listened just one time
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They don't show many Westerns on TV here
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They took away my gun
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But I still got that Western saddle
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The one we stole from Freddie's son
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Rocky, I hear that they're fading ya
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And it sure do make me sad
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I never thought in all my days
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You'd ever end up like that
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Remember that trailer in Minnesota
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That axle broke right in two
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We wired it together with four-by-fours
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And we drove the whole night through
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Rocky, you sure were a good cowboy
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You did sure could rope and ride
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I always told you not to chew that goddamned tobacco
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You coulda listened just one time
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So, Rocky, I'll just sign off now
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I've been up most of the night
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I just wanted to tell you when I heard the news
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It damned near made me cry
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Remember that gun we bought in Reno
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You shot Freddie right through the hand
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You wrapped it up in your best Western shirt
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Gave him all the money you had
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Rocky, you sure were a good cowboy
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You did sure could rope and ride
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I always told you not to chew that goddamned tobacco
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You coulda listened just one time
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You coulda listened just one time
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Rocky The Cowboy
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| Fred Eaglesmith |
