1976 Songs: Cowboy Song
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (83551)
United States
March 4, 2026 11:08am CST
You kids who hear this on the radio and sway along are in for a shock: this is now fifty years old. At least you have it easy. I remember when it came out! 
Back to 1976 and another rocker.
Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy
Hey, wasn’t this guy in last month’s countdown? Why, yes, thanks for noticing!
And yes, I decided to use this instead of the “big hit,” “The Boys Are Back in Town.” I like this better. And what else do you do after the boys get finished hanging around “Dino’s Bar and Grill” in “The Boys Are Back in Town” except go out and live like a cowboy!!
No, I don’t buy an Irish hard rock band singing about “the cowboy’s life is the life for me,” but dang it sounded good back then. It still does.
Cowboy Song
Written by Phil Lynott and Brian Downey
Recorded by Thin Lizzy
From Jailbreak, 1976
Runnin’ free with the buffalo:
Back to 1976 and another rocker.
Cowboy Song - Thin Lizzy
Hey, wasn’t this guy in last month’s countdown? Why, yes, thanks for noticing!
And yes, I decided to use this instead of the “big hit,” “The Boys Are Back in Town.” I like this better. And what else do you do after the boys get finished hanging around “Dino’s Bar and Grill” in “The Boys Are Back in Town” except go out and live like a cowboy!!
No, I don’t buy an Irish hard rock band singing about “the cowboy’s life is the life for me,” but dang it sounded good back then. It still does.
Cowboy Song
Written by Phil Lynott and Brian Downey
Recorded by Thin Lizzy
From Jailbreak, 1976
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I have no doubt I’ll like tomorrow’s.@FourWalls (83551)
• United States
8h
@AmbiePam — I don’t know if you’ll like it, but you’ll definitely know it!!
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@Ineeddentures (20135)
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5h
I remember Phil Lynott
I didn't particularly like Thin Lizzy, just not my gig but they were indeed very popular in the UK
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@FourWalls (83551)
• United States
4h
They weren’t all that big here, just this album and mostly “The Boys Are Back in Town.” Pity, because I liked them.
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@JudyEv (373212)
• Rockingham, Australia
1h
This was filmed at the Sydney Opera House - just in case you missed that little point!
@FourWalls (83551)
• United States
9h
Yeah, I hate live videos where they keep flipping to the audience. I watched a Steve Miller concert on a PBS fund drive one year and I swear they showed twice as much of the audience as they did of him! 
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