Lost my good horses in a few bad divorces And pawned my best saddle more than fifteen years ago No one to blame for the way I played the game I'm just a bad luck cowboy, too old to rodeo Beaten up and broken down, I finally had to move to town And change the way I'd done most things for years It sure got hard to make ends meet at every go-round gettin' beat Ridin' saddle broncs and ropin' steers Lost my good horses in a few bad divorces And pawned my best saddle more than thirty years ago There's no one to blame for the way I played the game I'm just a bad luck cowboy, too old to rodeo Well I'd bet it all on the luck of the draw It's not the cards they dealt, it's how I played my hand Now everything is gone, it seems that all that's left is ropes and dreams And I know I'll never ride again Lost my good horses in a few bad divorces And pawned my best saddle more than forty years ago There's no one to blame for the way I played the game I'm just a bad luck cowboy, too old to rodeo Yea I'm just a bad luck cowboy, too old to rodeo