Just a broken down cowboy    all down on his luck    Been through the best of his friends   On a long lonesome highway    in an old pick-up truck    Cross Texas like a hot dusty wind      He was All Around Cowboy back in forty-nine   From the top it's been a long way down   Since the whiskey and the women started winning his time   They rode him high and hard to the ground      He remembers the thrill of being a winner   and the days of his first rodeo   There's something 'bout winnin' that don't last forever   Maybe tomorrow things will get better   If the devil lets loose of his soul   He'll be the All Around Cowboy again      So he rolls up a smoke    and he sips his Old Crow    Wipes the whiskers that cover his chin    And he grins as he dreams of old rodeos   He's the All Around Cowboy again      He remembers the thrill of being a winner   and the days of his first rodeo    There's something 'bout winnin' that don't last forever   Maybe tomorrow things will get better   If the devil lets loose of his soul   He'll be the All Around Cowboy again