LAST OF THE SILVER SCREEN COWBOYS, THE
(Milton Brown / Snuff Garrett / Steve Dorff)


Rex Allen Jr. (with Roy Rogers & Rex Allen) - 1982


The last of the silver screen cowboys
The last of a fast dyin' breed
Cattle a-grazin', six-guns a-blazin'
God knows this is what America still needs

The last of the silver screen cowboys
Standin' tall for what he believes is right
Don't push him around 'cause more than one villain's found
That he don't back down from a fight

Roy and Trigger we loved you
And Hoppy we saved up our dimes
For the Saturday double features
And we sat through both movies two times

Gene, Lash and Rex were our heroes
We knew good would win in the end
If we could just turn back the pages
And ride those old trails once again

REX ALLEN:
The last of the silver screen cowboys
We settled the score with our fists
How we loved little babies, treated women like ladies
But it was only our horse that we kissed

ROY ROGERS:
Then the time slipped away fore we knew it
And you little wranglers put up your play guns and your toys
But mem'ries don't die and we're still ridin' high
ALL: We're the last of the silver screen cowboys



(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - July 2020)