The Bull Rider
Chris Ledoux

I was sittin' the a barroom one rainy afternoon
Tellin' stories about rodeo and listening to a tune
The rodeo starts tomorrow in this one horse town
So Bill took our names ane put our entries down

I went to the office the next day to see
What bareback horse I had and pay me fees
I looked on the list but my name wasn't found
I thought Bill might have forgot to put me down

I looked on the board and I happened to find
My name was on another list I was in the bull ridin'
My knees began to knock and my face began to sweat
And I heaved and gagged on the rodeo office steps

Well I may be a fool but a coward I'm not
So I borrowed a bull rope with a bell in the knot
I walked in the arena with them other bull ridin' fools
And walked down to the chutes and found my bull

Then I put my rope in the middle of his back
I had some cowboy pull out the slack
And then I wrapped the tail around my hand and back and said
Boy's open the gate just a little bitty crack

Well the bull hit the gate with his head
And I could see over his hump that his eyes were red
He bailed out of there with a big snort and beller
And something inside of me told me I was yeller

Well the dust and hairs and flies come off his hump
It whisp to my nose as he made another jump
And the stink of it all was more than I could stand
So I jerked my wrap and opened my hand

Well he jumped in the air and made one more turn
As the rope slid through my hand it sure did burn
He flang me down in a great big heap and
Right in the middle of me he did leap

With his feet on my belly standin' in place
That dirty old bull blew snot in my face
So them damned old bulls you can run 'em in a chute
And put your ropes on them big galloots
But the closest you're gonna find me to their stinkin' hair
Is to help some other fool get flug in the air

Boy the next time I see Bill I'm gonna break his dang neck
Enter me in the bull ridin'
Shoot I think I'll enter him in the Barrel Racing


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  (ghost) Riders In The Sky   (i Don't Want To Be A) Country Star   (I Used to Want to Be A) Cowboy   A Cowboy Like Me   A Cowboy Was Born   A Cowboy's Got To Ride   A Cowboy's Just Got To Ride   A Cowboys Just Got To   Ain't Had Time To Go Home   Ain't No Place For A Country Boy   Ain't Had Time To Go Home   Ain't No Place For A Country Boy   Album Intro   Album Outro   All Around Cowboy   All Around Cowboy Of 1964   All Wound Up   Amarillo By Morning   Back When We Was Kids   Bad Bahama Bull   Bad Brahma Bull   Ballad Of Will Rogers   Bang a Drum   Bareback Jack   Bars Shouldn't Have Mirrors   Bars Shouldn't Have Mirrors   Between the Rainbows and the Rain   Big Love   Billy the Kid   Blizzard   Blue Bonnet Blues   Blue Eyes And Freckles   Bluebonnet Blues   Born In Mississippi   Born To Follow Rodeo   Bucking Machine   Buckskin Lady   Bull Rider   Caballo Diablo   Cadillac Cowboy   Cadillac Ranch   Cadillac Ranch (Dance Club Version)   Cadillac Ranch [Dance Club Version]   Calico Moon   Call of the Wild   Christ And The Saddle Boogie Band   Colorado   Come Riding Joe Cy   Copenhagen   Copenhagen Angel   Copenhagen Junkie   Country Fair   Country Star   County Fair   Cowboy And The Hippie   Cowboy And The Rose   Cowboy In The Continental Suit   Cowboy Is A Hell Of A Man   Cowboy Like Me   Cowboy Songs   Cowboy Up   Cowboy's Got The Ride   Cowboy's Got To Ride   Cowboy's Prayer   Cowboy's Got The Ride   Cowboy's Prayer   Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love   Cowboys Ain't Easy To Love   Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll   Cowcamp Blues   Daddy's Biggest Dream   Daddy's Biggest Dream   Dallas Days And Fort Worth Nights   Dallas Days And Ft. Worth Nights   Daydream Cowboy   Desperado   Dirt And Sweat Cowboy   Don't It Make You Want To Dance   Don't It Make You Want To Dance   Dream On Cowboy   Easy Come, Easy Go   Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock & Roll   Even Cowboys Like A Little Rock And Roll   Every Time I Roll The Dice   Fathers And Sons   Feels Like I'm Gettin' Into Something Good   Feels Like I'm Gettin' Into Something Go...   Fine As Wine   Five Dollar Fine   Foggy Mountain Breakdown (instrumental)   For Your Love   For Your Love [DVD]   Fourth Of July Rodeos   Freedom Ain't Free   Freedom Ain't Free   Freedom's Just A State Of Mind   Freedom's Just A State Of Mind   Get Along Little Doggies   Get Back On That Pony   Getting By A Quarter At A Time   Git Along Little Doggies   Go Riding Young Cowboy   God Must Be a Cowboy   God Must Be Cowboy   Goin' And A Blowin'   Goin' And A Blowin'   Grange Hall Dance   Gravitational Pull   Greatest Prize   Hard Times   He Rides the Wild Horses   Hippies in Calgary   Home Frown Western Saturday Night   Homecoming   Hometown Cowboy   Honky Tonk World   Honky Tonk World [DVD]   Honky-Tonk World (1994)   Hooked On An 8 Second Ride   Hooked On An Eight Second Ride   Horsepower   Horsepower [DVD]   Horses and Cattle   I Believe In America   I Can't Ride The Broncos Anymore   I Can't Ride The Broncs Anymore   I Can't Ride The Broncos Anymore   I Do It For Me   I Don't Want To Be Cowboy Anymore   I Don't Want To Mention Any Names   I Don't Want To Be Cowboy Anymore   I Don't Want To Mention Any Names   I Got You   I Ride An Old Paint   I Would for You   I'll Get The Job Done   I'm Coming Home Mom Waltz   I'm Country   I'm Ready If You're Willing   I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man   I'll Get The Job Done   I'm Coming Home Mom Waltz   I'm Country   I'm Ready If You're Willing   I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man   If You Loved Me You'd Do It   If You Loved Me You'd Do It   It Ain't The Years It's The Miles   It Ain't The Years, It's The Miles   It Ain't The Years, It's The Miles   Jeans And Good Leather   Joad'e The Rodeo Clawn   Joad'e The Rodeo Clawn   Joade The Rodeo Clown   John Ed Sang Cowpoke   Johnson County War   Just Enough Money Honey   Just Enough Money, Honey   Just Riding Through   Lady Is Dancing With Me   Last Drive-In   Last Sunset   Lawman Reverend Brown   Lean Mean And Hungry   Lean, Mean And Hungry   Let's All Help The Cowboys (sing The Blues)   Let's All Help The Cowboys (Sing The Blues)   Life Is A Highway   Life Is a Highway [DVD]   Life Of A Rodeo Cowboy   Light Of The World   Little Joe The Wrangler   Little Long Haired Cowboy   Little Long-Haired Outlaw   Littlest Cowboy Rides Again   Lone Ranger (William Tell Overture)   Long Black Veil   Look At You Girl   Looking at You Girl   Love Needs A Fool   Making Ends Meet   Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys   Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys   Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Co...   Melodies And Memories   Mighty Lucky Man   Millionaire   Montana 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