Track name: BORN TO BE A COWBOY A
Trackcode: SCDV032341
Composer: Jim Wolfe
アーティスト: Jim Wolfe, Dan P. Dean, John Morton, Babs Lamb, Dave Harmonson, Jon Hamar, Chris Leighton
EAN/GTIN: 4020771137237
ISRC: DE-B63-13-72341
Album name: 50 YEARS OF COUNTRY USA Vol. 1: 1941-1961
Catalogue number: SCDV0323
Label: Sonoton Vanguard - SCDV
LC number: 07573
1959 - Grand Ol' Opry style male Cowboy vocal. Traditional Western story-song about a cowboy seeking his future in Mexico, featuring twangy electric guitars. 116 bpm (Cmaj)
Arranged & produced by Jim Wolfe. Recorded & mixed at The Resort, Sammamish, WA, USA. Sound engineer: Jim Wolfe.
Special thanks to the musicians and singers:
Musicians: Fiddle - Babs Lamb, pedal steel & electric guitar - Dave Harmonson, acoustic & electric guitar - John Morton, keyboards & melodica - Jim Wolfe, acoustic bass - Jon Hamar, electric bass - Dan Dean, drums - Chris Leighton.
Vocals: Zoe Muth (16, 46), Dave Harmonson (1, 6, 11, 21, 31, 36, 41), Marlin James (26) and background vocals: Joy Mills, Orville Johnson & Dave Harmonson.
Music consultant: Elisabeth Oei
Mastered by Wolfgang Meyscheider at digital music & media, Traunwalchen.
Cover art: Joe Miletzki
Born to ride with destiny
Born to be a cowboy
John Grady had a vision
A dream that could not fail
He was born to be a cowboy
And ride the open trail
He left his Texas past behind
He knew he had to go
Across the mighty river
Down into Mexico
A friend was riding with him
Both of them too young
Though solid in the saddle
And handy with a gun
With a vision of the future
John Grady set his mind
Riding far away
From the past he left behind
Born to ride with destiny
Born to be a cowboy
Trouble overtook 'em
Just past the Rio Grande
A stolen horse, a missing gun
Bad men in a bad land
One casualty in two
The odds are never kind
John Grady headed south
To the dream he hoped to find
Don Hector was a rancher
He saw promise in the man
Worked him mendin' fences
And riding on his land
But when the rancher's daughter
Lit his heart on fire
Trouble was a-brewin'
Caused by his great desire
Born to ride with destiny
Born to be a cowboy
Rosa loved John Grady
It caused her tears to flow
No matter how she cried
Her daddy wouldn't let her go
It's hard to say what happened
And where to place the blame
Did that boy disappear
Or head back from where he came
instrumental half-verse
Rosa never knew for sure
Her tears would never cease
She lived her life alone
Her father died in peace
Born to ride with destiny
Born to be a cowboy
Born to ride with destiny
Born to be a cowboy