Chris Ledoux Yellow Stud Lyrics

Yellow Stud Lyrics

Somewhere on the prairie a yellow stud runs free



Runnin' through the sage brush down through the coolies



And there not far behind him a cowboy rides along



He's gonna try to catch him and break him for his own







The chase goes on all morning and late into the day



The cowboy changes horses he staked along the way



The studd is growin' weaker now and gettin' short of wind



He runs into the trap corral the cowboy shuts him in







The yellow stud with wild eye the feared hated man



Finally standin' face to face in the hot dusty sand



The battle starts and rages on eneath the burning sun



The cowboy tried but couldn't ride the yellow outlaw stud







He sold him to a rodeo and it spread throughout the land



The legend of this yellow stud the baddest of the bad



And then one day in Cheyenne we knew it had to come



The best of all bronc riders he drew that yellow stud







The wooden gate flew open and the stud had bailed out high



An explosion of yellow horse seemed to fill the sky



The sud kept getting stronger and thrashing up the earth



The cowboy blew a stirrup and crashed into the dirt







So violently the stud had bucked that he slipped and fell



As he went back his backbone snapped the yellow stud lay still







As the cowboys gathered round him I heard one of 'em say



There'll never be another bronc like the one that died today



But out there on the praire there's a mare with mustang blood



And a colt runs close behind her a yellow outlaw stud