The Yellow Stud - Chris Ledoux

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