Chris Ledoux - The Yellow Stud lyrics

Somewhere on the prairie a yellow stud runs free Runnin' through the sage brush down through the coulees And there not far behind him a cowboy rides along He's gonna try to catch him and break him for his own The chase goes on all morning and late into the day The cowboy changes horses he staked along the way The stud is growin' weaker now and gettin' short of wind He runs into the trap corral the cowboy shuts him in The yellow stud with wild eyes, the feared hated man Finally standin' face to face in the hot and dusty sand The battle starts and rages on beneath the burning sun The cowboy tried but couldn't ride that yellow outlaw stud So he sold him to a rodeo and it spread throughout the land The legend of this yellow stud, the baddest of the bad And then one day in Cheyenne we knew it had to come The best of all bronc riders he drew that yellow stud. The wooden gate flew open and the stud had bailed out high An explosion of yellow horse seemed to fill the sky The stud kept getting stronger and thrashing up the earth The cowboy blew a stirrup and crashed into the dirt So violently the stud had bucked that he slipped and fell As he went down his backbone snapped the yellow stud lay still As the cowboys gathered round him I heard one of 'em say There'll never be another bronc like the one that died today But out there on the praire there's a mare with mustang blood And a colt runs close beside her a yellow outlaw stud