SOUL LIKE A ROCK
© Gary Orphey
(Intro) spoken
Some people are tougher than others
Some are fighters, some just talk
It doesn’t matter how they do it
Tough people have a soul like a rock
(V1)
When I was just a little boy
I lived next door to an old cowboy
He taught me rope tricks and his name was Jim
He took me to my first
Rodeo and what’s worse
He gave me my first taste of that roamin’ life
(V2)
I used to go there after school
We’d sit and talk and shoot the bull
He’d tell to me about life in his cowboy days
Then one day I noticed that thing
That pretty shiny diamond ring
He kept on a chain around his neck
(Bridge)
When I mentioned the ring
I saw a tear in his eye,
But he blinked it away like a tough guy
Then told me about a love he had lost
(V3)
In a flooded river in a driving rain
He tried to save her but all in vain
It was a tale well told of a tragedy
Her last words were on that fateful day
As the raging river swept her away
“I love you, I’ve always loved you.”
(Chorus)
A stronger man I’ve never known
He was tough all the way to the bone
He talked loves talk, he walked loves walk,
( 4 beat intro into...)
He had a soul like a rock, (+ backup singers)
He loved her, would always love her,
He had a soul like a rock, (+ backup singers)
The cowboy had a soul like a rock.
(Outro)
So I say to you before I’m through
A true love is never through with you
If my friend... you have a soul like a rock