Break all the horses you can't have no spirit here
Their shutting down a way of life that's stood a lot of years
And progress is gonna get us, if the smoke and the whiskey don't
You'd think that they's leave us well enough alone

So set the free range up in smoke you might as well just let it go
You can't work and you can't ride
Cause there ain't no fields left to run all the fences
Done gone up, there ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life

It's getting harder to find tough
There ain't a scuff on no boots
Seems these days that a man ain't got a thing to prove
Boys I grew up on back breaking
Hard labor and calloused hands
And if you've got a problem step out back and take a chance

So set the free range up in smoke
You might as well just let it go
You can't work and you can't ride
Cause there ain't no fields left to run all the fences
Done gone up, there ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life

Yeah, so set the free range up in smoke
You might as well just let it all go
You can't work and you can't ride
Cause there ain't no fields left to run all the fences
Done gone up
There ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life
Yeah, another bullet in the cowboy life