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Old Jake
Chris LeDoux
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Now old Jake was a cowboy, he'd worked his whole life on the range
And he could rope, and he could ride with any man just half his age
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Old Jake was my hero and me, I was just a green kid
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And I prayed that someday I could do all the things old Jake did
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Well, we sat around the bunkhouse one cold and lonely winter's night
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Just chewin' and talkin' and smokin' by the coal oil light
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Well, old Jake had been awful quiet that evenin' and he stared hard and long
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He said, "Young puncher, you goin' to remember me after I'm gone"
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And he said
"Whatever happens to old cowboy heroes like me?
The broken down part of the man I used to be
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Will I be forgotten, or live on in your memory?
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Whatever happens to old cowboy heroes like me?"
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It's been a long time and oh how the years fade away
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Well, I stopped by the bunkhouse where me and old Jake used to stay
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They said Jake died about ten years ago
And they buried him out there on the plains
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Old friend, you might be gone, but your memory always stays the same
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Whatever happens to old cowboy heroes like me?
The broken down part of the man I used to be
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Will I be forgotten, or live on in your memory?
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Whatever happens to old cowboy heroes like me?
Whatever happens to old cowboy heroes like me?
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