He was black as the sky on a moonless night    Real good with the horses never reined them too tight    He rode with the best Hell he rode with me    And they got it all wrong in that book of history      It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men    It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin    And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes    We swore at the devil then went for a ride      We told some tales but he told them best    Real life can always use a good stretch    But that don't change the things we did    Cause the truest thing was the life that we lived      It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men    It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin    And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes    We swore at the devil then went for a ride      There's more than one kind of pain    There's more than one kind of theft    It's bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept    You stole my heart age stole the fire    And they stole my prairie when they strung all that wire      It wasn't the cowboys and ponies it was the horses and men    It wasn't school boys and ladies it was cow towns and sin    And there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes    We swore at the devil then went for a ride      We swore at the devil and went for a ride