I was only five years old when your song came out I heard "Should've Been A Cowboy" on the radio Screaming from the dash of my daddy's pre-owned Camry In between Dwight Yoakam and Diamond Rio It was the first of many verses that I memorized loosely Hell, it ain't like you were Garth But you were one of a hundred favorite artists on the country charts I know this is a long time coming Your mailbox money isn't gonna go away It's hard to know where to start But I've got a few things to say Your Japanese-made guitar props up Fascists While you brag about kicking asses With a boot in your mouth, exploiting the American South You helped turn my culture into a parody Milking laborers for your prosperity I wish you would've been a cowboy, Toby Keith I was only 13 when the towers fell Heard your national anthem rewrite on CMT You were celebrating war with eagles and star spangled anger Spinning lives and loss into stage props and radio plays Well i heard from Lady Liberty and she ain't happy Says you misquoted her views But you were confident and full-chested sitting there on Fox News `There were not a lot of places where a kid like me felt heard and understood But weren't you sitting in your big house counting your money When you wrote trailerhood? You wore my life like a costume on the TV Milking laborers for your prosperity I wish you would've been a cowboy, Toby Keith