Scatter the Ashes Lyrics

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He got busted up bad down in Lubbock
He was takin' the Greyhound back home
Though the fire in his eye never flickered
He knew the best of his good days were gone
He said I'm thinkin' of life in a town,
But the rodeo life's all I've known
And {F]I don't know what to do with the rest
I'm too burned out to go on
He said scatter the ashes over the road, then let a strong wind blow
Well I can't walk away, til it's my time to go.
He said son my road back to heaven
Sometimes leads me out of the way
Through those rodeo towns and those drunken old sundowns
Someday to an early grave.
He pulled his saddle up over his shoulder
Said before you throw dirt on my bones
Hey tell me what do you do with a broken old cowboy
Who spent his whole life being thrown.