You rode the Goodnight-Loving trail
Went up the Chisholm too
You drove three thousand up to Kansas City
And you wintered with Teddy Blue
Here's looking at you
Here's looking at you
You rode with Ranger Goodnight
You helped him tame the land
You learned the Llano Estacado
Just like it was the back of your hand
When you rode for the brand
You rode for the brand
Went three times to Sedalia
With a cook and six-man crew
You came damn near losing the herd and your hair
To a pa**el of renegade Sioux
But you saw it through
You saw it through
You courted the dancehall beauties
Until they picked your pockets clean
You let it happened once you let it happen twice
Up in Dodge and Abilene
Every place in between
Every place in between
From a heat wave in Palo Pinto
And to the frostbite on Raton Pa**
You looseherded cattle through a Southwestern drought
In the quest for water and gra**
Alack and alas
You huntin' water and gra**
You drove home the fittest survivors
When word came of late summer rain
You reveled in respite for weary riders
And three pounds a day in gain
The respite of rain
Three pounds of gain
You drove 'em up to Montana
Over rivers swollen outta their bank
You started out as a wrangler's helper
But you rose up through the rank
Through the dark and the dank
You rose through the rank
A poor way to make a living
You threatened to quit, but then
When the herd bedded down at the shank of evenin'
Why you knew you'd do it over again
Through the thick and the thin
You'd do it over again
Now a half-dozen generations
They've mourned your pa**in' on
But you was just startin' what still ain't over
And your spirit saddles up in the dawn
For you are not gone
No you are not gone
For we see you in the Steeldust
The spark flyin' off'a the show
Maybe we're here livin' what you never dreamed of
But you lived what we never knew
Here's looking at you
Here's looking at you
Here's looking at you
Here's looking at you