Cash Johnny Cowboy`s Prayer Lyrics

Cowboy`s Prayer Lyrics

Lord, I've never lived where churches grow 

 

 I loved creation better as it stood 

 

 That day you finished it so long ago 

 

 And looked upon your work and called it good 

 

 I know that others find you in the light 

 

 That sifted down through tinted window panes 

 

 And yet I seem to feel you near tonight 

 

 In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains 

 

 I thank you, Lord, that I'm placed so well 

 

 That you've made my freedom so complete 

 

 That I'm no slave to whistle, clock or bell 

 

 Nor weak eyed prisoner of Waller Street 

 

 Just let me live my life as I've begun 

 

 And give me work that's open to the sky 

 

 Make me a partner of the wind and sun 

 

 And I won't ask a life that's soft or high 

 

 Let me be easy on the man that's down 

 

 Let me be square and generous with all 

 

 I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town 

 

 But never let them say I'm mean or small 

 

 Make me as big and open as the plains 

 

 And honest as the horse between my knees 

 

 Clean as a wind that blows behind the rains 

 

 Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze 

 

 Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget 

 

 You know about the reasons that are hid 

 

 You understand the things that gall or fret 

 

 Well, you knew me better than my mother did 

 

 Just keep an eye on all that's done or said 

 

 And right me sometimes when I turn aside

 

 And guide me on that long, dim trail ahead 

 

 That stretched upward toward the great divide