Track listings

1. "Cowboy Logic
2. "I Ride an Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies"
3. "Tumbling Tumbleweeds
   Tumbling Tumbleweeds
   "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a song composed by Bob Nolan, one of the founding members of the Sons of the Pioneers. Although one of the most famous songs associated with cowboys, the song was composed by Nolan back in the 1930s while he was working as a caddy and living in Los Angeles...
   
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4. "Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail"
5. "The Old Chisholm Trail
   The Old Chisholm Trail
   "The Old Chisholm Trail" is a cowboy song that dates back to the 1870s, when it was among the most popular songs sung by cowboys during that era. Based on an English lyrical song that dates back to 1640, "The Old Chisholm Trail" was modified by the cowboy idiom...
   
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6. "Home on the Range"
7. "What Am I Doing Here"
8. "Wild Ripplin' Waters"
9. "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
10. "Spanish is the Loving Tongue
    Spanish is the Loving Tongue
    "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" is a song based on the poem "A Border Affair" written by Charles Badger Clark in 1907. Clark was a cowboy poet who lived throughout the American West, and was named the Poet Laureate of South Dakota in 1930. The poem was set to music in 1925 by Billy Simon...
    
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11. "Cowboy Pride"
12. "Red River Valley
    Red River Valley (song)
    Red River Valley is a folk song and cowboy music standard of controversial origins that has gone by different names—e.g., "Cowboy Love Song", "Bright Sherman Valley", "Bright Laurel Valley", "In the Bright Mohawk Valley", and "Bright Little Valley"—depending on where it has been sung. ...
    
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13. "Let the Cowboy Dance"
14. "Jack of Diamonds"
15. "Texas Rangers"
16. "When the Work's All Done This Fall"
17. "The Streets of Laredo
    Streets of Laredo (song)
    "Streets of Laredo" , also known as the "Cowboy's Lament", is a famous American cowboy ballad in which a dying cowboy tells his story to a living one. Derived from the English folk song "The Unfortunate Lad", it has become a folk music standard, and as such has been performed, recorded and adapted...
    
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18. "O Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
    Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
    "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" is a cowboy folk song. Also known as "The Cowboy's Lament", "The Dying Cowboy" and "Bury Me Out on the Lone Prairie", the song is described as the most famous cowboy ballad...
    
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19. "Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die/Reincarnation"
20. "Goodbye Old Paint"
21. "Happy Trails
    Happy Trails (song)
    "Happy Trails," by Dale Evans Rogers, was the theme song for the 1940s and 1950s radio program and the 1950s television show starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Rogers, always sung over the end credits of the program. Happy Trails was released in 1952 as a 78 RPM and 45 RPM by Rogers and Evans with...
    
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Credits

• Michael Martin Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey
  Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, Country music, and Popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter...
  
   – vocals, guitar
• Tammy Wynette
  Tammy Wynette
  Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
  
   – background vocals
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar, mandolin, background vocals, producer
• Biff Watson – guitar
• Mark Casstevens – guitar, harmonica
• Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
   – steel guitar
• Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
• John McEuen
  John McEuen
  John McEuen , is an American folk musician and entertainer. He was one of the earliest members of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. He played with the band from 1966 to 1986, and returned in 2001.The group prior to that 'dissolved' a few times briefly, but none as long as in 1968, right after spending 4...
  
   – banjo, mandolin, fiddle
• Dennis Burnside – keyboards
• David Hoffner – keyboards, hammer dulcimer
• Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor
  Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
  
   – fiddle
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Michael Rhodes – bass
• Craig Nelson – electric bass
• Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers
  Eddie Bayers is an American session drummer who has played on 150 gold and platinum albums. He received the Academy of Country Music 'Drummer of the Year Award' for eight straight years, and has three times won the Nashville Music Awards 'Drummer of the Year'...
  
   – drums
• Jerry Kroon – drums
• Don Edwards
  Don Edwards (cowboy singer)
  Don Edwards is a cowboy singer and guitarist who plays Western music. He has recorded several albums, two of which, Guitars & Saddle Songs and Songs of the Cowboy, are included in the Folklore Archives of the Library of Congress...
  
   – background vocals
• Jack Hannah – background vocals
• Curtis Stone – background vocals
• Cactus Moser – background vocals
• Jack Daniels – background vocals
• Suzy Bogguss
  Suzy Bogguss
  Susan Kay "Suzy" Bogguss is an American country music singer. In the 1980s and 90s she released one platinum and three gold albums and charted six top ten singles, winning the Academy of Country Music's award for Top New Female Vocalist and the Country Music Association's Horizon Award.After...
  
   – background vocals
• Paulette Carlson – background vocals
• Red Steagall
  Red Steagall
  Russell Steagall is a multitalented showbusiness personality whose career has covered a period of 35 years and has spanned the globe...
  
  – background vocals
• Lon Hannah – background vocals
• Dennis Wilson – background vocals
• Curtis Young – background vocals

Chart performance