Ian Tyson – Tom Blasingame lyrics

Tom Blasingame

Tom's the name
Tom Blasingame
Eighty-five years in the saddle
Seen eighty-five years
Through a cow horse's ears
While chasin' the wild bovine

Yeah ya thought they're all gone
Still one hangin? on
Tied hard and fast to the memories
And might near the only one
To tell us how she got done
While chasin' the wild bovine

There's ten million cattle
On ten thousand hills
And no man can ride for 'em all
Still Tom lopes along
Through the rocks and the rills
Following the old cattle call

Bridge:

The Cross S's
The Five L's
The big Double O's
To the Matadors in Texas
And Lord only knows
What a wonderful life
In the wonderful game
Hair on ya Tom Blasingame

(Instrumental break)

Now Tom he claims that a man's true joy
Is in work that a man likes to do
And if I understand
Tom's a right joyous man
And Tom here's lookin' at you

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