My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (song)

"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" is the title of a song from the soundtrack to the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, and which was released as a single in 1980. It was his first release in the 1980s. "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" was written by Sharon Vaughn and performed by Willie Nelson and would become his fifth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for two weeks and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the country chart ^[1].

Content

The narrator contrasts the hero-worship that children devote to cowboys to his adult lonely reality of roaming and living out on the range, or in his case the road. The narrator has become his own hero, one he never quite expected. The cowboy the child aspired to be is not the cowboy the man has become.^[2]

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