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It's Hard to be a Girl

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[Verse 1] Sunrise hits the old red barn, boots already on, Coffee black and burnin’, another day begun. Daddy’s gone to glory, left this spread to me, Fences need mendin’, calves won’t wait, you see. I rope and ride through blizzards, mend the broken wire, Ain’t no time for tears when the devil lights the fire. [Chorus] I’m a girl with balls of steel on this old daddy’s rancho, Heart like barbed wire, tougher than the land I know. They say it ain’t fittin’ for a lady’s gentle hand, But I break the broncs and brand ‘em, make this ranch still stand. Yeah, I’m rough as mesquite, wild as Mustang wind, Ain’t backin’ down, hell no—I was born to win. [Verse 2] Neighbors shake their heads when I haul hay at dawn, “Girl, you need a man to help you carry on.” I just smile real pretty, tip my hat down low, Then outrun their pickup in the moonlit glow. Blood and sweat and cussin’, that’s my daily song, This land don’t care what’s hangin’ where it don’t belong. [Chorus] I’m a girl with balls of steel on this old daddy’s rancho, Heart like barbed wire, tougher than the land I know. They say it ain’t fittin’ for a lady’s gentle hand, But I break the broncs and brand ‘em, make this ranch still stand. Yeah, I’m rough as mesquite, wild as Mustang wind, Ain’t backin’ down, hell no—I was born to win. [Bridge] Sometimes at night the quiet gets too loud to take, Miss the old man’s gruff voice, the stories by the lake. But he raised me up swingin’, said “Never bend, don’t break,” So I keep this fire burnin’ for both our sakes. [Chorus – final, bigger] I’m a girl with balls of steel on this old daddy’s rancho, Heart like barbed wire, tougher than they’ll ever know. Let ‘em talk their whiskey talk in them neon bars, I’ll still be standin’ tall beneath these Texas stars. Yeah, I’m rough as mesquite, wild as Mustang wind, Long live the cowgirl life—I was born to win. [Outro] Balls of steel… on daddy’s rancho… Yeah, I was born to win.