Lyrics:

(Lyle Lovett and Willis Alan Ramsey) The boys from North Dakota They drink whisky for their fun And the cowboys down in Texas They polish up their guns And they look across the border To learn the ways of love If you love me, say I love you If you love me, say I do If you love me, say I love you If you love me, say I do And you can say I love you And you can say I do So I drank myself some whisky And I dreamed I was a cowboy And I rode across the border If you love me, say I love you If you love me, take my hand If you love me, say I love you If you love me, take my hand And you can say I love you And you can have my hand I remember in the mornings Waking up With your arms around my head You told me you can sleep forever And I'll still hold you then Now the weather's getting colder It's even cold down here And the words that you have told me Hang frozen in the air And sometimes I look right through them As if they were not there And the boys from North Dakota They drink whisky for their fun And the cowboys down in Texas They polish up their guns And they look across the border To learn the ways of love