Everybody wanna know where did all the cowboys go?

Musta been the whiskey, maybe it was all the Marlboros

But it ain't none of that, that laid 'em all low

Yeah, believe me I know

It was that midnight stare

That look in her eyes like a knife to the heart

It was that poison kiss

Cherry red lips, oh my God, leaning up against the bar

And I know it wasn't the smoke, it wasn't the drink

And I've got the proof

If you wanna know what killed the cowboy

A girl like you

The way she does it wasn't just another rodeo

Lipstick kiss on the mirror, that was all she wrote

Yeah it's supposed to be me riding away

But I'm dying in the bed that she made

It was that midnight stare

That look in her eyes like a knife to the heart

It was that poison kiss

Cherry red lips, oh my God, leaning up against the bar

And I know it wasn't the smoke, it wasn't the drink

And I've got the proof

If you wanna know what killed the cowboy

Ooh (a girl like you)

Well she's off in the sunset, she's out on the run

Bet she's halfway to Jackson by now

And I'm heartbroke to hell and I'm drowning the well

While I'm telling the bartender how

It was that midnight stare

That look in her eyes like a knife to the heart

It was that poison kiss

Cherry red lips, oh my God, leaning up against the bar

And I know it wasn't the smoke, it wasn't the drink

And I've got the proof

If you wanna know what killed the cowboy

A girl like you

A girl like you

A girl like you