What Am I Doing Here Lyrics

The song What Am I Doing Here is performed by Michael Martin Murphey in the album named Cowboy Songs in the year 1990 .



Starin' at the south end of north bound cattle
Slavin' in the saddle all day
You've got to be some kind of natural born fool
To want to live your life this way

Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money
The devil made the horse that I ride
The days are too long and the nights are too short
And the boss ain't never satisfied

So what am I doing here Lord? What am I doing here?
There's got to be something better up there
So what am I doing here?

Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder
If a cowboy's even got a prayer
And why'd you have to make it so hard down here
When things are so much better up there

Now the Lord called His angels all around the throne
Said, "Boys I must be wastin' my time
'Cause I thought I gave the cowboy a pretty good life
Now he's complaining 'til the day he dies"



Michael Martin Murphey - Cowboy Songs

Aug 1990

  1. Cowboy Logic
  2. I Ride An Old Paint/Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo, Git Along Little Doggies
  3. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
  4. Tying Knots In The Devil's Tail
  5. The Old Chisholm Trail
  6. Home On The Range
  7. What Am I Doing Here
  8. Wild Ripplin' Waters
  9. The Yellow Rose Of Texas
  10. Spanish Is The Lovin' Tongue
  11. Cowboy Pride
  12. Red River Valley
  13. Let The Cowboy Dance
  14. Jack Of Diamonds
  15. Texas Rangers
  16. When The Work's All Done This Fall
  17. The Streets Of Laredo
  18. O Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
  19. Where Do Cowboys Go When They Die/Reincarnation
  20. Goodbye Old Paint
  21. Happy Trails

What Am I Doing Here