I was born and raised in the Red Clay Hills of Texas   In the land where the grass gets only beer can tall   That's where I learned to cuss and fight and chew Brown Mule Tobacco   Fix windmills fore I was five years old   I rode every head of stock from the Gulf to Kansas City   And running wild is all I've ever known   But this cowboy's got a weakness for Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons   And there's something bout 'em I can't leave alone   Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons make a cowboy swim a river   That before he jumps he knows is way too wide   And they'll make him throw a saddle on a bronc he's never seen   And one he knows he'll never break to ride   [ guitar ]   I met her at a rodeo in Douglas Arizona   I'd drawn the rankest horse a man could draw   Well I rode him tall and spurred him high and when I made the whistle   The crowd went wild but she was all I saw   That night we had a beer or two with friends of mine from Dallas   She smiled and said she loved the Texas drawl   And I felt like Roy Rogers did in all those cowboy movies   Cause I became the hero got the money girl and all   Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons...   Yeah they'll make him throw a saddle...