I WANT TO BE A COWBOY'S SWEETHEART
(Patsy Montana)


Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers - 1935 
Rosalie Allen - 1946
Bonnie Owen - 1965
Suzy Bogguss - 1988
HiJinks (vocal: Sara Winge) - 1991
The Dixie Chicks - 1992


Also recorded by: Nickel Creek; Leann Rimes;  
Bob Wills' Texas Playgirls; Lynn Anderson.






I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
I want to learn to rope and ride
I want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts
Out west of the great divide
I want to hear the coyotes howlin'
While the sun sets in the West
I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
The the life I love the best 


(Yodeling) 


I want to ride Old Paint, goin' at a run
I want to feel the wind in my face
A thousand miles from all the city lights
Go at cowhand's pace
I want to pillow my head near the sleeping herd
While the moon shines down from above
I want to strum my guitar and odo-lay-eee-hee
Oh, that's the life that I love 


(Yodeling) 


I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
I want to learn to rope and ride
I want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts
Out west of the great divide
I want to hear the coyotes howlin'
While the sun sets in the West
I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart
The the life I love the best 


(Yodeling)






TRIVIA:
Patsy Montana's recording became the first song by a female country artist to sell a million copies. 
























(Contributed by  - April 2008)