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"Where is my happy ending, where have all the cowboys gone?"

Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | Paula Cole

Model: Macauley Rogers

Photographer: Thomas Knights for Red Hot 100

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where have all the—

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Oh, you get me ready in your '56 Chevy

Why don't we go sit down in the shade?

Take shelter on my front porch

The dandelion sun scorching

Like a glass of cold lemonade

I will do the laundry

If you pay all the bills

Where is my John Wayne?

Where is my prairie song

Where is my happy ending?

Where have all the cowboys gone

Why don't you stay the evening?

Kick back and watch the TV

And I'll fix a little something to eat

Oh, I know your back hurts from working on the tractor

How do you take your coffee my sweet?

I will raise the children

If you pay all the bills

Where is my John Wayne?

Where is my prairie song?

Where is my happy ending?

Where have all the cowboys gone?

I am wearing my new dress tonight

But you don't, but you don't even notice me

Say our goodbyes

Say our goodbyes

Say our goodbyes

We finally sell the Chevy when we had another baby

And you took that job in Tennessee

You made friends at the farm

You'd join them at the bar almost every single day of the week

I will wash the dishes

While you go have a beer

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Paula Cole - Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? (Official Music Video)

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Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? - Paula Cole

Number 8 5/23/97

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I just dislike guys at a visceral level. The whole might makes right thing violent subtext in every interaction they make my skin crawl.

My secret

Binding bending

Until breaking

And entering impatient

To stake a claim

Heavy breathing bleeding

Breeding the order of things

Breaking fresh-baked bread

Over bloated bruised body

Sweeping crumbs out to pasture

One hand clutching

A broom, the other his

Cock crowing a new day

Bills to feed and mouths to pay

Be a dear and clear the table

Dessert is on you tonight

Home sweet home sweet

Cherry pie cyanide

One hell of a life

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where is my marlboro man, where is his shiny gun?

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i miss joe buck

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HAIM cover Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? by Paula Cole at Pitchfork (2019)

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[Image description: Article headline that says "Girls! Why Not Wed A Cowboy?" and helpfully adds the following context, in smaller print: "They make great hubbies and---it's leap yeap." End description.]

One does wonder what it being a leap yeap has to do with wedding a cowboy, but I'm sure the article elaborates.

Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912

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Where Have All The Cowboys Gone? - Paula Cole - 1996