Circuit Rider

Oh, I'm a lonesome cowboy

And I've traveled everywhere

And I've seen the troubled faces

Of those left to despair

Oh, I'm a weary traveler

And I'm taken for your care

Oh, I'm a lonesome cowboy

My once green plains are bare

I'm just a circuit rider

And I ride the dusty trails

And I've wasted words on people

In churches and in jails

My summers are so hot and long

Your winters cold and mean

I'm just a circuit rider

And I'll wander 'til the spring

Oh, I'm a lonesome cowboy

A healer of the soul

For all the fearful honest folk

I've played my hopeful role

The young ones all have left my town

The old one's eyes just stare

I'll ride my circuit anyway

For anyone who cares