From a phone booth in Cheyenne

I made a promise to Diane

No more rodeos

I'd gone my last go 'round



The same promise that I made

In San Antone and Santa Fe

But tonight I saddled up

And let her down



Wild horses keep draggin' me away

And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday

Wild horses just stay wild

And her heart is all I break

Wild horses keep draggin' me away



She'll watch me drive around her block

Gettin' courage up to stop

To make her one more promise

That I can't keep



The way I love the rodeo

I guess I should let her go

Before I hurt her more

Than she loves me



Wild horses keep draggin' me away

And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday

Wild horses just stay wild

And her heart is all I break

Wild horses keep draggin' me away