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1990**lf**Writer(s): Michael Murphey**lf****lf**Where do cowboys go when they die?**lf**Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye?**lf**Where the water is clean and the grass grows free**lf**And there ain''t a cloud in the sky**lf****lf**''What is reincarnation?''**lf**A cowboy asked his friend**lf**His friend replied ''Well, son**lf**It happens when your life has reached its end.''**lf****lf**You see, they comb your hair and they wash your neck**lf**And they clean your fingernails**lf**And they you down in a batted box**lf**Far away from life''s trevails.**lf****lf**Now the box and you goes in a hole**lf**That''s been dug into the ground**lf**And reincarnation starts in**lf**When you''re planted beneath the mound**lf****lf**You see the box melts down just like the clods**lf**With you is inside**lf**And then, you''re just beginning**lf**On your transformation ride''**lf****lf**Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye**lf**Where do cowboys go when they die?**lf****lf**Well, in a while, some rain''s gonna come**lf**And fall upon the ground**lf**''Til one day on your lonely little grave**lf**A little flower will be found**lf****lf**And say a hoss should wander by**lf**And graze upon the flower**lf**That once was you, but now becomes**lf**A vegetative bower**lf****lf**That little flower that the hoss done ate up**lf**With all his other feed**lf**Becomes bone and fat and muscle**lf**Essentials to the steed**lf****lf**Course some is consumed that he can''t use**lf**And so it passes through**lf**Finally, it lays there on the ground**lf**This thing that once was you**lf****lf**And then say that I should wander by**lf**And gaze upon the ground**lf**And wonder and ponder**lf**On this object that I''ve found**lf****lf**Well, it sure makes me think of reincarnation**lf**Of life and death and such**lf**And I ride away concludin''**lf**Slim, you ain''t changed all that much**lf****lf**Where do cowboys go when they die?**lf**Is there a place in the sweet bye and bye?**lf**Where the water is clean and the grass grows free**lf**And there ain''t a cloud in the sky