Patsy Montana performs "I Want To Be A Cowboys Sweetheart"

"I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" is a country and Western song written and first recorded in 1935 by Ruby Blevins, who performed as Patsy Montana. It was the first country song by a female artist to sell more than one million copies. Montana wrote the song in 1934 when she was feeling lonely and missing her boyfriend; it was recorded a year later when producer Art Satherly, of ARC Records, needed one more song at a Prairie Ramblers recording session. Montana was the group's soloist at the time. Her song is based on Stuart Hamblen's western song Texas Plains: he is therefore credited as a cowriter. Patsy Montana embellished the simpler musical pattern of the original, especially with her yodeling. Patsy also used a lot of the original words: the song is somewhat of a feminine answer to its precursor.

Patsy Montana - I Want To Be A Cowboys Sweetheart Lyrics

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

I want to learn to rope and to ride

I want to ride o'er the plains and the desert

Out west of the great divide

I want to hear the coyotes howlin'

While the sun sets in the West

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

That's the life that I love best

I want to ride Old Paint, goin' at a run

I wanna feel the wind in my face

A thousand miles from all the city lights

Goin' cowhand's pace

I want to pillow my head near the sleeping herd

While the moon shines down from above

I want to strum my guitar and odo-lay-eee-hee

Oh, that's the life that I love

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

I want to learn to rope and to ride

I want to ride o'er the plains and the desert

Out west of the great divide

I want to hear the coyotes howlin'

While the sun sets in the West

I wanna be a cowboy's sweetheart

That's the life that I love best