Hat Full of Feathers - Tom T. Hall

I was almost full grown gettin' wide in the shoulders

Rubbin' my horns on a tree

When I noticed that ladies had big eyes for cowboys

They weren’t noticin' me

I bought me a Stetson and all of the trappin’s

Hung out where cowboys all gathered

I copied their style and their slow way of talkin'

Walked like I was chaffed by the leather

I tasted the smiles of the rodeo queens

And I lied about rides that I’d made

Then a honker from Jasper I’d been lustin' after

Said I’ll be out to watch you today

Oh the riggin' was borrowed but the fear was my own

It was me and all hell tied together

Too damn scared to fall boys I won it all

And that’s how I got my first feather

A feather for ev’ry event that I’ve won

I will be a contender forever

An all around cowboy I outrode 'em all

And I got me a hat full of feathers

Well I feathered my hat through a lot of hard miles

Swapped bruises in a lot of good towns

Lord how many cowboys and ladies and bronks

Have left me laid out on the ground I don’t know

I’ve had ev’ry bone broken and son I ain’t jokin'

It’s painful to be wired together

I ain’t quiet so proud as I was awhile ago

But I got me a hat full of feathers

A feather for ev’ry event that I’ve won

And all of the storms I have weathered

An all around cowboy holdin' my own

With a shabby ole hat full of feathers