I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart   I want to learn to rope and to ride   I want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts   Out west of that great divide   I want to hear the coyotes howlin'   While the sun sinks in the West   I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart   That's the life I love the best       (Yodeling)       I want to ride Old Paint goin' at a run   I want to feel the wind in my face   A thousand miles from all the city lights   Goin' a cowhand's pace   I want to pillow my head near the sleeping herd   While the moon shines down from above   I want to strum my guitar and yodelay-hee-hoo   Oh that's the life that I love       (Yodeling)       I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart   I want to learn to rope and to ride   I want to ride o'er the plains and the deserts   Out west of that great divide   I want to hear the coyotes howlin'   While the sun sinks in the West   I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart   That's the life I love the best       (Yodeling)