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by Garth Brooks


"Rodeo"
Verse 1
                         
His eyes are cold and restless
                          
His wounds have almost healed
                        
And she'd give half of Texas
                           
Just to change the way he feels

She knows his love's in Tulsa
         
And she knows he's gonna go
           
Well it ain't no woman flesh and blood

It's that damned old rodeo
Chorus
                     
Well it's bulls and blood
      
It's dust and mud
                           
It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
       
It's the white in his knuckles
       
The gold in the buckle
                                             
He'll win the next go 'round

It's boots and chaps

It's cowboy hats
                  
It's spurs and latigo

It's the ropes and the reins

And the joy and the pain
                          
And they call the thing rodeo
Verse 2
  
She does her best to hold him
                       
When his love comes to call
                            
But his need for it controls him
                           
And her back's against the wall
                                        
And it's So long girl I'll see you
                  
When it's time for him to go

You know the woman wants her cowboy
                   
Like he wants his rodeo
Chorus
                     
Well it's bulls and blood
      
It's dust and mud
                           
It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
       
It's the white in his knuckles
       
The gold in the buckle
                                              
He'll win the next go 'round

It's boots and chaps

It's cowboy hats
                 
It's spurs and latigo

It's the ropes and the reins

And the joy and the pain
                         
And they call the thing rodeo
Verse 3
        
It'll drive a cowboy crazy
                      
It'll drive the man insane
                                 
And he'll sell off everything he owns
                        
Just to pay to play the game
                              
And a broken home and some broken bones
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Is all he'll have to show
 
For all the years that he spent chasin'
                       
This dream they call rodeo
Chorus 
                     
Well it's bulls and blood
      
It's dust and mud
                          
It's the roar of a Sunday crowd
       
It's the white in his knuckles
       
The gold in the buckle
                                             
He'll win the next go 'round

It's boots and chaps

It's cowboy hats
                  
It's spurs and latigo

It's the ropes and the reins

And the joy and the pain
                         
And they call the thing rodeo


Ending 
It's the broncs and the blood
It's the steers and the mud
And they call the thing rodeo