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What Am I Doing Here
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as performed by Michael Martin Murphy on Cowboy Songs I album

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1: Starin' at the south end of north bound cattle
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Slavin' in the saddle all day
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You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
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To want to live your life this way

2: Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied

CHORUS
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So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here
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There's got to be something better up there
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So what am I doing here

BRIDGE
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Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
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If a cowboy's even got a prayer
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And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
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When things are so much better up there

3: Now the Lord called his angels all around the throne
Said boys I must be wastin' my time
'Cause I thought I gave the cowboy a pretty good life
Now he's complaining 'till the day he dies

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