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Only Cowboys Know How To Say Goodbye

from Quantity Over Time by Where

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about

Dave on how the song was born:


“I was on my way home from Tim’s house late one evening, probably slightly worse for wear, and to pass the time I started writing down song titles for an imaginary country and western album. I had quite a few, probably enough for a triple album.

There were titles like:
‘She Counted To Three and I Was Gone’
‘It’s A Short Cut To My Heart’
‘Love Gambler’
‘Touched And Gone’
and, ‘Only Cowboys Know How To Say Goodbye’.

I started to wonder what some of these songs might sound like, and ‘Only Cowboys...’ sort of stood out from the rest as a kinda funny title.

I wanted to hear it; so I wrote it.”


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lyrics

Only Cowboys Know How To Say Goodbye

I’ve been searching high and low across this desert land
For a woman whose got a face that fits and an appetite to match
Well, every fair maiden that has ever crossed my path
Has woken broken hearted with a rose on her pillow

Only cowboys know how to say goodbye

When I was just a little boy my Daddy said to me:
“Treat ’em mean and keep ’em keen
And you can’t go far wrong
Now here’s a gun and a bottle of rum
Go out and have yourself some fun
It’s not the way you meet ’em, boy
It’s the way you choose to leave ’em”

Only cowboys know how to say goodbye

A horse, a gun, an Indian friend and a belly full of beer
Is all a man should ever need in this crazy mixed-up world
Now I can tell you many tales about the broken hearted
But if they chose the cowboys path then they would be so happy

Only cowboys know how to say goodbye
Goodbye cowboy
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

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credits

from Quantity Over Time, released November 1, 2009
music and Lyrics: Beck
track written in 2000


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