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Sun comes up over the prairie, shinin’ off the prairie ponds.
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Sittin’ here on my pony watchin' the day start to move along.
F# G# C# A#m
The wind blows though the pine trees and across the mountaintops.
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And I know this is the life for me, and a good day never stops.
[Chorus]
C# F# C# G# C#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doing what I've always dreamed.
C# F# C# C# A#m F# G#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doin' life naturally it seems to me.
C#
Keep a-ridin’ high.
[Verse]
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In a high mountain grassland, I'm a-watchin’ the cattle graze,
C# A#m D# G#
Riddin’ across Burn meadow, working for my day's wage.
F# G# C# A#m
The sweat it rolls from under my hat and across my dusty brow.
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Got to get along hoss, can't lope like that, got to chase another stray cow.
[Chorus]
C# F# C# G# C#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doing what I've always dreamed.
C# F# C# C# A#m F# G#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doin' life naturally it seems to me.
C#
Keep a-ridin’ high.
[Verse]
C# F# C# F#
Kicked back at the trapper's lodge, I'm a-sitting on the front porch.
C# A#m D# G#
Smell the ole Majestic cooking what the cookie don't scorch.
F# G# C# A#m
I know that fence needs fixin' and that some of the chores ain't done.
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But today is not right for doing them; see there will be another one.
[Chorus]
C# F# C# G# C#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doing what I've always dreamed.
C# F# C# C# A#m F# G#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doin' life naturally it seems to me.
C#
Keep a-ridin’ high.
[Verse]
C# F# C# F#
Tomorrow I'm headed for Cimarron, to the local meeting place,
C# A#m D# G#
Gonna play some pool and see some friends and probably eat a steak.
F# G# C# A#m
And there will be piano singing, and a two-step dance, and a barroom fight.
F# G# F# G# C#
It’s a hard long work in a cowboy's life but you know it’s really alright.
[Chorus]
C# F# C# G# C#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doing what I've always dreamed.
C# F# C# C# A#m F# G#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doin' life naturally it seems to me.
C#
Keep a-ridin’ high.
[Verse]
C# F# C# F#
Sittin’ around a campfire watching the flames leap from log to log,
C# A#m D# G#
Thinkin’ the whole day through some cowboy songs.
F# G# C# A#m
I wish for you all around the best of peace and joy,
F# G# F# G# C#
You got to keep riding high for all your life like the New Mexican boy.
[Chorus]
C# F# C# G# C#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doing what I've always dreamed.
C# F# C# C# A#m F# G#
Just a New Mexican cowboy, doin' life naturally it seems to me.
C# G#
Keep a-ridin’ high.
C#
Keep a-ridin’ high.