Verse I was born and raised in the red clay hills of Texas In the land where the grass gets only beer can tall Thats where I learned to cuss and fight and chew Brown Mule Tobacco Fix windmills fore I was five years old I rode every head of stock from the Gulf to Kansas City Runnin wild is all Ive ever known But this cowboys got a weakness for Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons And theres somethin bout em I cant leave alone Chorus Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons make a cowboy swim a river That before he jumps, he knows is way too wide And theyll make him throw a saddle on a bronc hes never seen And one he knows hell never break to ride I met her at a rodeo in Douglas, Arizona Id drawn the rankest horse a man could draw Well, I rode him tall and spurred him high And when I made the whistle The crowd went wild but she was all I saw That night we had a beer or two with friends of mine from Dallas She smiled and said she loved the Texas drawl And I felt like Roy Rogers did in all those cowboy movies ?Cuz I became the hero, got the money, girl and all Chorus Tight Levis and Yellow Ribbons make a cowboy swim a river That before he jumps, he knows is way too wide And theyll make him throw a saddle on a bronc hes never seen And one he knows hell never break to ride