E B A C#m D A G Bm They say that a man just doesn't grow up 'til he's forty odd years old. Such was the case of young Kelly James and everybody knows. He had a place on the back stretch, out near the racetrack, made money on horses he broke. Had him a girl that he loved dearly, her name was Rodeo Rose. Young Kelly James and Rodeo Rose, they lived heart to heart. And up and down the streets of our town, you would never see them apart, 'Til one day Rodeo Rose up and left him, and she never came back again. To this very day, if you ask Kelly James, he says he doesn't understand. Chorus: Because she wanted him crazy, but not that crazy, wild but not that wild. They were gonna settle down and get married some day, maybe have themselves a child. Breaking horses and dealing cattle, and livin' way over the edge, With a possibility he might always stay free, and she couldn't take the chance. Young Kelly James stayed in that place, and everything turned out alright. 'Cept he'd go out drinking and shoot up the town on some odd Saturday night. And they'd throw him in jail, and I'd go down and get him, and I'd put him back out on the street. And he'd stay straight and he'd be okay for another couple of weeks. (Chorus) Rodeo Rose now she lives in the suburbs in a house with a two-car garage. She's got a steady husband and a couple of children and nothing hardly ever goes wrong, Except Rodeo Rose she drinks too much too, and when she does she gets wild. She gets crying about horses and underfed cattle and always a month behind. (Chorus) With a possibility he might always stay free, and she couldn't take the chance. They say that a man just doesn't grow up 'til he's forty odd years old. RODEO ROSE Fred J. Eaglesmith