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