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HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
BIG & RICH

Rollin’ (The Ballad of Big & Rich)
Big Kenny / John Rich / Cowboy Troy

Country boys don’t rock and roll,
Yeah, the record man told me so
You’ll never get it on the radio

Why they tryin’ to complicate
The simple music that we make
Oh, cause if it moves my soul, I’m gonna keep on rollin’, rollin’

Chorus
Hey, just wanna hear everybody sing (rollin’, rollin’)
At the top of your lungs till the windows break (rollin’, rollin’)
Say hey, hey, hey

Ain’t gonna shut my mouth
Don’t mind if I stand out in a crowd
Just want to live out loud

I know there’s got to be
A few hundred million more like me
Just trying to keep it free

Repeat Chorus

Charlie Pride was the man in black
Rock and Roll use to be about Johnny Cash
Hey, what you think about that

I’m a crazy son of a …..
But I know I’m gonna make it big and rich
Yea, I’m gonna let it rip

Repeat Chorus

Dum-diggity-dum, Diggity-diggity-dum, dig this
Slicker than the grease from a barbecue brisket,
Got more chunk than a fresh potato salad,
You thought you had the answer but the answer was invalid,
You're lookin' at me crazy 'cause you think I'm loco,
The Big Black Cowboy with the crazy vocal,
Todas las personas estan gritando arriva,
Now you heard it, now I know you're a believer,
Esta cancion es para toda la gente,
Es muy importante a usar su mente
So let go of all your preconceived notions,
Get up on your feet and put your body in motion,
'Cause back home we love to dance,
We could be two-steppin' or ravin' to trance,
And when the party is "crunk" the girls back it up,
We've got the systems in the cars and the 20's on the trucks,
6' 4" with a cowboy hat,
I don't mess around, yo' what's up with that?
I'm Cowboy Troy, a Texas hick!
And I'm rollin' with the "brothas" Big & Rich!

Repeat Chorus

Wild West Show
Big Kenny/ John Rich / Blair Daly

I’m feeling like Tonto, riding a Pinto, trying to chase the Lone Ranger down
I’m a little unraveled, but I’m still in the saddle, crying your name out to the clouds
Hey ya, hey ya a
Why don’t you meet me, back at the teepee, we’ll lay down by the campfire
And there in the dark night, we’ll smoke the peace pipe, forget about whose wrong or right
Hey ya, hey ya a

Chorus
It was a big show down, oh yeah we stood our ground
Shot out the lights it got a little crazy
Don’t want to see us go, the way of the buffalo
Don’t want to have another wild west show
Hey ya, hey ya a

Only forgiveness will finally end this, there won’t be a witness if we both fall
There’s never a hero in a battle of egos, there’s never a winner of the quick draw
Hey ya, hey ya a

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
It’s like a ghost town without you around
Why can’t we just forget and ride off in the sunset

Repeat Chorus

I’m feeling like Tonto, riding a Pinto, trying to chase the Lone Ranger down

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Big Time
Big Kenny / John Rich / Angie Aparo

My hair might be a little too long for your taste my friend
My car might cost a little less than that suite your wearing
I’m glad you’ve stumbled in here on your business trip
Before you close your tab remember I play for tips
Well I bet your wife is beautiful and you’re a really big so and so
Well I’m not doing bad myself, hey friend don’t you know

Chorus
I play guitar and I sing my songs in the sunshine
Captain and cokes and bar room jokes keep me feeling fine
And there’s always a stage and a beautiful babe to squeeze my lime
In my simple way guess you could say I’m living in the big time

I know I’ll probably never make a million bucks
But savings accounts and the IRS never worry me much
I don’t need that stuff cause I’ve got friends like you
To buy me drinks, have boats and planes that I can use
I know you’re really living in that house up on a hill
So if you feel like giving, friend I’ve got a jar to fill

Repeat Chorus

I’m having the time of my life
No worries on my mind
Everything’s just fine

Today is even better than yesterday
Everything is going my way
I’m living in the big time

And there’s always a stage and a beautiful babe to squeeze my lime
In my simple way guess you could say I’m living in the big time
In my simple way guess you could say I’m living in the big time

Kick My Ass
Big Kenny / John Rich / Bryan Wayne

Well I walked up to the bar, I laid down my platinum card
Then I ordered fifty longnecks for my new friends
Well the barmaid passed them out, and before we chugged them down
I held mine up, said here’s to us and then
This blonde slid up to me, she said "That was awful sweet"
And then I saw her boyfriend as wide as he was tall
Well he broke up our hug, with a six foot five inch shove
And I found myself slammed up against the wall

Chorus
Why does everybody want to kick my ass
I’m just trying to have a little fun for all the ones who can’t
And just because I kiss the prettiest girls and I drive my truck to fast
Why does everybody want to kick my ass

Well I’ve never been the type to walk up and pick a fight
I’ve always been the kind to get along
I throw parties all the time, and they’re always on my dime
We drink and dance and smoke until the dawn
Well my style of stress relief, sometimes disturbs the peace
The police show up, cut donuts in my yard
And while the Zeppelin’s playin’ loud, they run off my party crowd
They cuff my wrists and throw me down so hard

Repeat Chorus

And just because I kiss the prettiest girls and I drive my truck to fast
Why does everybody want to kick my ass

Six Foot Town
Big Kenny / John Rich

My brakes are on fire, from trying to slow down
I’m always burning my tires and my horn is too loud
I catch people staring looking funny at me
When I step to the window and I toss a TV

Sometimes I get crazy and it makes a big scene
But when I hit twenty one, I want to stand up and scream
I’m filthy rich with laughter, I’m too big for the room
You know from two stories up a Zenith makes a big boom

Chorus
It’s hard to get around in a six foot town
When you’re ten feet tall everything is so small
I’m always bumping my head, I’m way too long for the bed
Yea, it’s hard to get around, in a six foot town

Some people live inside a tiny little box
They’re preoccupied about mismatching their socks
Well I’ve never been one to worry bout much
I just wanna laugh and love, I just wanna live it up
But,

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
And sometimes I stumble, just because of my size
But, hey ya’ll that’s alright
That’s the way God made me, I am what I am
And I can’t do nothing bout that
Oh, but

Repeat Chorus

Holy Water
Big Kenny / John Rich / Vicky McGehee / Jeff Cohen

Somewhere there’s a stolen halo
I use to watch her wear it well
Everything would shine, where ever she would go
But lookin’ at her now you’d never tell

Someone ran away with her innocence
A memory she can’t get out of her head
And I can only imagine what she’s feelin’ when she’s prayin’
Kneeling at the edge of her bed

Chorus
And she says take me away, then take me farther
Surround me now and hold, hold, hold me like holy water

She wants someone to call her angel
Someone to put the light back in her eyes
She lookin’ through the faces and unfamiliar places
She needs someone to hear her when she cries

Chorus
When she says take me away, then take me farther
Surround me now and hold, hold, hold me like holy water

Bridge
She just needs a little help, to wash away the pain she’s felt
She wants to feel the healin’ hands of someone who understands

Chorus
And she says take me away, then take me farther
Surround me now and hold, hold, hold me
And she says take me away, then take me farther
Surround me now and hold, hold, hold me like holy water

Saved
Big Kenny / John Rich / John Phillips

There was a time I’d try to kill a man
Just for lookin' at me wrong
Anger so strong I couldn't stop myself
I was killin’ myself one shot at a time
Going insane from the pain the women and the wine

But I finally hit bottom in an alley way,
Hell wasn’t but a breath away,
So I hit my knees in the street and begged God for mercy

Chorus
Last night I told the devil where to go
You know Heavens got my soul
Ain’t gonna listen to his lies no more
Last night I told the devil where to go

I could have saved myself a lot of hurt and time
If I'da just listened to my mama
Every time she cried
But I was way to lost in a sinners haze, burning up the days
Just another young man who had lost his way

Now it finally makes since what the preacher said
When he said “son you don’t want to wake up dead
and find yourself alone in the fires of hell”

Repeat Chorus

Now when you hear that demon knockin’ at your door,
You just tell him you don’t want his kind round here no more

Cause if you wanna love, if you wanna live,
If you wanna be free you can’t forget and forgive
You gotta kick him in the teeth and do exactly what I did.

Repeat Chorus

Real World
Big Kenny / John Rich / Adam Shoenfeld

There’s a girl on channel 13
I know she's gonna fall in love with me
And I’m gonna win the lottery tomorrow, or the next day

I drive a Mercedez Benz
I've got a whole butt load of friends
I’m gonna be on CMT someday

Chorus
But in my real world
Things don’t always turn out so good, like you wish they would
In my real world
I’m a little bit messed up and broke, don’t you know

I got more money than George Strait
I throw benji’s out the window all day
Just to see how far they fly, bye bye

I get more girls than the president
Mom and dad still pays the rent
And I throw parties all night long

Repeat Chorus three times

Rhapsody:
Yeehaw
I’m a rockstar, I’m a cowboy, everybody loves this song
I’m a rockstar, I’m a cowboy, everybody sing along
I’m a rockstar, I’m a cowboy, everybody loves this song
I’m a rockstar, I’m a cowboy, everybody sing along

I've got a space ship fully equipped cause I'm a cowboy Stevie Wonder
I've got a space ship fully equipped cause I'm a cowboy Stevie Wonder
I've got a space ship fully equipped cause I'm a cowboy Stevie Wonder
I've got a space ship fully equipped cause I'm a cowboy Stevie Wonder

Green green grass and a rubber Russian bimbo
No one's got a name for the brain in a scarecrow
How can he believe what he sees on the TV
Nothin' but extreme overexecuted fantasy
Happy dancin' feet down the street on the corner
Some they say he's silly some they say that he's a loner
How can you explain he's got a name nobody knows it
Did anybody ever stop and offer him a prozac?
Prozac, prozac, prozac.

Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)
Big Kenny / John Rich

Well I walk into the room passing out hundred dollar bills and it kills and it thrills,
Like the horns on my Silverado grill.
And I buy the bar a double round of Crown and everybody’s getting down,
And this town ain’t never gonna be the same . . . cause

Chorus
I saddle up my horse and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise cause the girls they are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say, save a horse, ride a cowboy
Everybody says, save a horse, ride a cowboy

Well I don’t give a dang about nothing I’m singing and bling blinging
While the girls are drinking, longnecks down
And I wouldn’t trade old Leroy or my Chevrolet for your Escalade
Or your freak parade, I’m the only John Wayne left in this town . . . and

Repeat Chorus

Well I’m a thoroughbred that’s what she said in the back of my truck bed
As I was getting...buzzed on suds out on some back country road
We where flying high, fine as wine, having ourselves a big and rich time
And I was going just about as far as she’d let me go
But her evaluation of my cowboy reputation
Had me beggin’ for salvation all night long
So I took her out gigging frogs, introduced to my old bird dog
And sang her every Willie Nelson song I could think of, and we made love . . . and

Repeat Chorus

What, what, save a horse, ride a cowboy
Everybody says, save a horse, ride a cowboy

Drinkin’ ‘Bout You
Big Kenny / John Rich

All my life I’ve been tellin’ myself, I don’t need no nobody else
I’m sitting here thinking sitting here drinkin’ ‘bout you

I look through the mirror and all that I see, is one crazy lonely sucker looking back at me
I’m sitting here thinking sitting here drinkin’ ‘bout you

I’m just a man on a mission trying to make some decision,
Aw Ooh, what am I gonna do
Cause, I ain’t going nowhere, if I can’t be somewhere with you
Boo, boo, boo
I’m sitting here thinking sitting here drinkin’ ‘bout you

Ah, play it my brothas

I’m just a man on a mission trying to make some decision,
Aw Ooh, what am I gonna do
Cause, I ain’t going nowhere, if I can’t be somewhere with you
Boo, boo, boo
I’m just sitting here thinking sitting here drinkin’ ‘bout you

Yes I’m sitting here thinking sitting here drinkin’ ‘bout you

Love Train
Big Kenny / John Rich / Jon Nicholson

I see people getting’ mad on CNN
Who’s right, Democrats or Republicans
I don’t care whose right or wrong
I know a way we can all get along

Chorus
Let’s take a ride, let’s take a ride on the Love Train
Unwind, we’ll be chug a luggin’ all the way
Let’s roll, like the Stone’s playin’ all day hey
Let’s take a ride, let’s take a ride on the Love Train

The whole color things never made since to me
Who gives a hoot if you’re red yellow purple or pink
We’re all mixed up anyway
We might as well give each other a break

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
So let’s forget about the hatin’
And the way the bulls are playin’
Without Jordan on the team
And the high price of gasoline
And if you’re livin’ in a bubble
Then I guess you got no trouble
If your anything like me
Well then I bet you really need....to

Repeat Chorus

Deadwood Mountain
Big Kenny / John Rich

I’ve been a rambler all my life
Been a bet it all gambler
Yea, I let it all ride
Never been afraid of losing
And there’ve been times I’ve lost it all
But it won’t really matter
Someday when I’m gone

Chorus
You can bury me on Deadwood Mountain
By my brother Wild Bill and sister Calamity Jane
Don’t bring me no flowers, just a six gun smoking
Put me eight feet down, when you bury me
Put me eight feet down, when you bury me

When your heart runs deeper than a ghost town gold mine
You just know your bound to find, that mother load
You’ll spend your last heartbeat, chasing after rainbows
No there’s no place you won’t go, to win one more time

Repeat Chorus

Bridge
And cover me, a little extra deep
Cause that's the only way, I’m ever gonna rest in peace

Repeat Chorus
Put me eight feet down, when you bury me

Live This Life
Big Kenny / John Rich

Met a man on the street last night, he said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night
Thought he was crazy till, I watched Him heal a blind man
I watched Him heal a blind man, now I see

Chorus
I’ll live this life until this life won’t let me live here anymore
Then I will walk, yes I will walk with patience through that open door
I have no fears, angels follow me wherever I may go
I’ll live this life until this life won’t let me live here anymore

Met a girl in a chair with wheels, but no one else would see her
Met a girl in a chair with wheels
Everyone was so afraid to even look down on her
And she just spread her little wings a flew away

Repeat Chorus
Live here anymore
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

Met a kid on a bridge last night, contemplating freedom
Met a kid on a bridge last night
And he said, “I’m tired of this maddening life and I’m ready to go meet Jesus”
I said, “He’s a friend of mine, met Him just last night, and its alright, yea”
Yea

Repeat Chorus
Live here anymore
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

Met a man on the street last night, he said his name was Jesus
Met a man on the street last night.

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