The Willie Nelson We are the Cowboys song and music video were released in 2020 as Willie covered the song for his upcoming album, First Rose of Spring. Willie Nelson had recorded a prior version of “We Are the Cowboys.” when he joined Shaver, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson for an all-star version on 2000’s Honky Tonk Heroes album. The music video was filmed at Nelson’s Luck Ranch outside of Austin by his son Micah Nelson. The music video captures the aging outlaw tending to his horses and living the cowboy lifestyle. There are also nods to Nelson’s cowboy heroes in the forms of cardboard cut-outs of Roy Rogers and Gene Autry.
Watch the official music video for “We are the Cowboys” and check out the written lyrics below.
Willie Nelson We are the Cowboys (Official Music Video)
Willie Nelson We are the Cowboys Lyrics
Texans are gathered up in Colorado
The kid with a fast gun ain’t with them today
The cowboys are riding tall in the saddle
They shoot from the heart with the songs that they play
There’s a right handsome woman on up around Boulder
They got slick hardwood floors and a pot belly stove
She swears I am someone she can believe in
She the best Colorado gal I’ve ever known
We are the cowboys the true sons of freedom
We are the men who will get the job done
We’re picking our words so we won’t have to eat them
We’re rounding them up and then driving them home
Cowboys are average American people
Texicans mexicans black man and jews
They love this old world and they don’t want to loose it
There counting on me and there counting on you
The world will breathe easy when we stop the bleeding
The fighting will end when all hunger is gone
There’s those who are blind so will all have to lead them
It’s everyones job till we get the work done
We are the cowboys the true sons of freedom
We are the men who will get the job done
We’re picking our words so we won’t have to eat them
We’re rounding them up and then driving them home
We’re rounding them up and then driving them home
Willie Nelson turned 88 years old on April 29, 2021 and continues to release new music. “That’s Life” is the seventy-first solo studio album by Willie Nelson and was released on February 26, 2021. The ablum is a tribute to Frank Sinatra and represents the second volume of Nelson’s Sinatra collection (following 2018’s My Way). Willie was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on September 29, 1993. Remember to “share” the Willie Nelson We are the Cowboys music video with other country music fans.
