I Can Still Make Cheyenne

"I Can Still Make Cheyenne"
Single by George Strait
from the album Blue Clear Sky
B-side "Need I Say More"
Released August 26, 1996
Format CD single, 7" single
Recorded September 28, 1995[1]
Genre Country music
Length 4:14
Label MCA Nashville Records 55248
Writer(s) Aaron Barker, Erv Woolsey
Producer Tony Brown, George Strait
George Strait singles chronology
"Carried Away"
(1996)
"I Can Still Make Cheyenne"
(1996)
"King of the Mountain"
(1997)

"I Can Still Make Cheyenne" is the title of a song written by Aaron Barker and Erv Woolsey and recorded by American country music artist George Strait. It was released in August 1996 as the third single from Strait's 1996 album Blue Clear Sky. The song also appears on 50 Number Ones. A live version can be heard on his album, For the Last Time: Live from the Astrodome, which came out in 2003. A DVD, with the same name, also features the song.

Lyrics

The song is about the life of a rodeo cowboy. The song begins with a phone call from a cowboy on the road to his love. He assures her that he is coming home. However, her tone alerts him that something is wrong. The chorus reveals that the woman has decided to leave him. The man replies that as much as this pains him, he will go on to Cheyenne, the most prestigious rodeo around. He was going to give up Cheyenne to be with her, one of the biggest sacrifices a cowboy could make, yet the moment he learned she had replaced him for another, he was quick to try and make Cheyenne.

Chart positions

"I Can Still Make Cheyenne" debuted at number 74 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 24, 1996.

Chart (1996) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 4
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 2

References

  1. ^ (2000) Album notes for Latest Greatest Sraitest Hits by George Strait [CD]. MCA Nashville.