All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart   Every western hero on the screen's    Been with me from the start   Ridin' high and showin' me the way   And they've been there with me through my toughest times   We'd ride out to the boundries but we never crossed those lines   And that's a code that I'm still livin' by today      The code of the west was black and white   Good guys and the bad   You would always know who's wrong or right   By the color of their hat      Now there aren't so many happy trails    I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see   You don't go off into the sunset    And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea      And it's good to see the bad guys on the run   While our modern day heroes show 'em how the west was won   On their trail 'til they bring the last one down   We could use a few more cowboys here today   A few more days of reckoning and a lot more hell to pay   Where that debt is owed there ain't no middle ground      The code of the west was black and white   The good guys and the bad   You would always know who's wrong or right   By the color of their hat      Now there aren't so many happy trails    I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see   You don't go off into the sunset    And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea      The code of the west was black and white   The good guys and the bad   You would always know who's wrong and who was right   By the color of their hat      Now there aren't so many happy trails    I've ridden some you wouldn't wanna see   You don't go off into the sunset    And they don't run from sea to shinin' sea      All my life I've been a cowboy in my heart