The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs - When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings

[Verse 1]
 
Let me tell you buddy, there s a faster gun,
                                  
comin  over yonder, when tomorrow comes.
                                       
Let me tell you buddy, and it won t be long,
                                               
til you find yourself singing your last cowboy song.

[Chorus]
                                   
Yippee ki-yi-yay, when the round-up ends.
                                  
Yippee ki-yi-yay, and the campfire dims.
                                  
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
                                 
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.

[Verse 2]
 
When they wrap my body in the bindling sheet,
                                               
and they take my six-irons, pull the boots from my feet,
                                         
Unsaddle my pony, she ll be itching to roam,
                                                
I ll be halfway to heaven, under horsepower of my own.

[Chorus]
                                   
Yippee ki-yi-yay, when the round-up ends.
                                  
Yippee ki-yi-yay, and the campfire dims.
                                  
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
                                 
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.

[Chorus]
                        
Yippee ki-yi-yay, (I m glory bound).
                                    
No more jingle jangle (I ll lay my guns down)
                                  
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
                                 
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.