[Verse 1]
Break all the horses
You can't have no spirit here
They're shuttin' down a way of life
That's stood a lot of years

[Verse 2]
And progress is gonna get us
If the smoke and whiskey don't
But you'd think that they'd leave
Us well enough alone

[Chorus]
So set the free range up in smoke
You might as well just let it go
You can't work and you can't ride
'Cause there ain't no fields left to run
All the fences done gone up
There ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life

[Verse 3]
It's gettin' harder to find tough
There ain't a scuff on no boots
It seems these days that a man
Ain't got a thing to prove
[Verse 4]
Boys I grew up on backbreakin'
Hard labor and calloused hands
And if you've got a problem
Step out back and take a chance

[Chorus]
So set the free range up in smoke
You might as well just let it go
You can't work and you can't ride
'Cause there ain't no fields left to run
All the fences done gone up
There ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life

[Chorus]
Yeah, so set the free range up in smoke
You might as well just let it all go
You can't work, you can't ride
'Cause there ain't no fields left to run
All the fences done gone up
There ain't no cattle drive
Another bullet in the cowboy life
Yeah, another bullet in the cowboy life