Cattle Call

Emmylou Harris · Songs of the West [Warner Bros] [1994]

(Tex Owens)



The cattle are prowling

The coyotes are howling

Out with the doggies bawl

Where spurs are jinglin'

A cowboy is singin'

This lonesome cattle call.



He rides in the sun

Till his day's work is done

And he rounds up the cattle each fall

Singin' this cattle call.



--- Instrumental ---



For hours he will ride

On the range far and wide

As the night wind blows up a squall

His heart is a feather

In all kinds of weather

He sings his cattle call.



He's brown as a berry

From riding the prairie

And he sings with an old western drawl

Singin' this cattle call...