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 deserts out west of the great divide i want hear the coyotes howlin while the sun sinks in the west i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart that's the life that i love best (yodeling) i want to ride old paint going at a run i want to feel the wind in my face a thousand miles from these city lights goin at a cowhand's pace i want to cradle my head near the sleeping herd while the moon shines down from above i want to strum my guitar and yodel-a-e-hoo oh that's the life that i love (yodeling) 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 deserts out west of the great divide i want to hear the coyotes howlin while the sun sinks in the west i want to be a cowboy's sweetheart that's the life that i love best (yodeling)