Just old enough to be too old for me in their eyes All of adventure and the things that spell danger To them you weren't my kind of guy And they'd seperate us if they'd see us talking A walking together alone Yours was a world they could not understand Where a lady would never belong
You were a cowboy with so many dreams in your mind And the future you promised me they said would never be And I'd better leave you behind Young and confused I could not help but wonder That they might be tellin' me right But my heart was aching as I watched yours breaking The day that I told you goodbye
All day had dreamed I would be well I never became And the castles they planned where I'd live didn't stand They all washed away in the rain But I've read about you it seems you found everything They said that you'd never find Funny how things have turned out for the lady And the cowboy who wasn't my kind
If I could just turn back the pages and do it again I'd do what my heart told me to I'd go with you And I wouldn't listen to them For now I'm alone and just there in your mansions That I could have shared by your side And you would have loved me and I'd have been happy With the cowboy who wasn't my kind