Dixie ChicksCowboy Take Me Away (4:46)

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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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