Dixie ChicksCowboy Take Me Away (4:47)

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Cowboy Take Me Away is a country song from the Dixie Chicks. Appearing on their August 1999 albumFly, it was released as a single in November 1999. It reached Number One on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in February 2000.

Driven by co-writer Martie Seidel’s violin, Emily Robison’s banjo, and Natalie Maines’ evocative vocals, Cowboy Take Me Away quickly became one of the trio’s signature songs. The lyric deals with a mixture of yearning for greater tranquility:

I wanna walk and not run

I wanna skip and not fall
I wanna look at the horizon
And not see a building standing tall

with plaintive desire for emotional, romantic connection:
I wanna be the only one
For miles and miles
Except for maybe you
And your simple smile

and simple joyous acceptance against a minor chord turning into major:
Oh it sounds good to me
Yeah it sounds so good to me
Cowboy, take me away …

Starting with a quiet opening, the record ramps up to a mid-tempo country-pop groove and features violin breaks from Seidel as well as an exuberant outro. Maines was praised for a “sincere” vocal that escaped the clichés of “Nashville music-factory tearjerkers”. Cowboy Take Me Away has become a staple of the Dixie Chicks’ concert set lists, appearing from the Fly Tour onwards.

The first scene of the music video for Cowboy Take Me Away shows a car stopping on a busy street, with Robison’s high hot pink cowboy boot splashing through a puddle, and Maines waiting in a crowded elevator until reaching the top floor of an empty industrial-looking loft, joining the other two Chicks.
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  • Fly
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  • The Essential Dixie Chicks
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  • Playlist: The Very Best Of The Dixie Chicks
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  • marybrian46

    Oh man good songs and gorgeous ladies to, want else do you need, love this music!

    20 days ago
  • JNez

    love this one! these ladies new a new album badly!

    March 2012
  • DreamyIslandGal

    @davidgeorgea.................. and I want a cowboy! :))

    February 2012
  • davidgeorgea

    Well I want a Dixie Chick ..(*_*)..

    December 2011
  • macnoetz

    allways GREAT music

    November 2011
  • Photophobia

    I wanna grow something wild and unruly...sounds good to me too, Natalie. :P

    October 2011
  • Tarja_Phoenix

    I need a cowboy :) hehe) Awesome song!

    October 2011
  • Andreas85

    As a guy I'm probably not supposed to like this song... but damn, it's just awesome [2]

    August 2011
  • FREESER8

    As a guy I'm probably not supposed to like this song... but damn, it's just awesome

    July 2011
  • Tim_O-K

    memories which give me shiver

    February 2011
  • Trouble2112

    I need a cowboy in my life <3

    January 2011
  • bercer

    sooo great"" Ladys""" < 3 rock on""

    January 2011
  • top20fanatico

    <3

    December 2010
  • caldreamer

    Wonderful song...and thanks, gals, for standing up to the Republicans after being panned for criticizing Pres. Bush and the Iraq war.

    October 2010
  • nickie8885

    man i listened to this when i was just a lil girl i love it till never get old!

    October 2010
  • davidgeorgea

    A good bit of country music , They just have it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wonderful

    October 2010
  • Rpebble

    Absolutely love this song and I think the chicks roooooooooooooocccccccccccckkkkk!

    September 2010
  • 007staples

    Take me away........

    September 2010
  • marciszk

    hey there ladies how are you all doing

    September 2010
  • LadyPatience

    This is my first listen; nice. :)

    August 2010
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