He was black as the sky on a moonless night

Real good with the horses, he never reined them too tight

And he rode with the best, Hell he rode with me

And they got it all wrong in that book of history

It wasn't cowboys and ponies, it was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies, it was cow town's and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the Devil and then we went for a ride

We told some tales, he told them best

Real life can always use a good stretch

But that don't change the things we did

'Cause the truest thing was the life that we lived

It wasn't cowboys and ponies, it was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies, it was cow town's and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the Devil and then we went for a ride

It's more than one kind of pain, more than one kind of theft

And it's bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept

She stole my heart, age stole the fire

They stole my prairie when they strung all that wire

It wasn't cowboys and ponies, it was horses and men

It wasn't school boys and ladies, it was cow town's and sin

And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes

We swore at the Devil and then we went for a ride

Lord, we swore at the Devil and then we went for a ride