[Verso]
At the broken heart ranch
You can always get work
As a cow-fool
There's feeling's to wrangle
Loose ends to untangle and tie
Sun up to sundown
Riding herd on old memories
Sundown to sun up
Singing the bunkhouse blues
There's a lone bawling calf
Lost in a little box canyon
Got no companion
Lord, don't I know how he feels
Up there on the canyon rim
Blows a cold coyote wind
Buzzards grinning down at him
I'm singing the bunkhouse blues
At the broken heart ranch
Saturday night sure gets lonesome
I long for the lights
And the comfort of someone in town
Playing cards and killing time
Somebody stole my pigging line
This ain't no nursery rhyme
I'm talking the bunkhouse blues
