I heard a popular artist the other day
who was a singing about God
"God's a cowboy" I heard him say
it struck me sad that this was the mod

Modern ideas are getting crazier it seems
people doing and saying stupid stuff,
The more popular who can do stupider things
like drugs, whiskey and snorting snuff

And things of which I won't even speak
are taught to our children week by week
But I'm here to tell you God a cowboy: AIN'T!
what I've seen cowboys do - they ain't saints

God doesn't run around in worn levis
a crooked cigarette hangin from his mouth
Ridin' horses and drinkin' with the guys
checkin' out n chasin' bods of trashy louse

Seeing with whom he can unionize
fightin and cussing all he can despise
Drivin' old trucks, gettin thrown in the dirt
sleeping late and stayin out of church

If you're a thinkin that's what God is
and you want to serve a deity like that
I'ma telling you now you're in for a surprise
when you stand before Him, you'll feel like a rat

Because He is all that is holy, clean and pure
you'll shake and tremble at His demur
And plead forgiveness for with God you toyed
you'll see for yourself, God Ain't No Cowboy . . .