How to Be Bovine - Song Page
© Words & Music by Annie Wilson
From album Out on the Tallgrass Prairie
Album Notes:
Out on the ranch, I spend a lot of time looking at cattle - especially from my back porch.
They are so relaxed, slowly wandering across the open prairie, grazing, resting, taking it all in, just hanging out.
I feel like there are lessons we humans could learn from our mellow bovine friends.
As the song observes: “While people worry, stew and fret, cows ruminate with no regret. Why should they worry or opine? They know how to be bovine."
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LYRICS
Watching cows is therapeutic.
They move to a slower music.
The bovine personality
can help inspire serenity.
Always drifting at their leisure,
cows know how to take a breather
to gaze out on a scene sublime.
They know how to be bovine.
With no top teeth they use their lowers
like a big slow-motion mower,
single steps and never faster
‘cross the peaceful prairie pasture.
Then they stop and all lie down,
chewing cud - jaws circle ‘round.
Lying in the sweet sunshine,
they know how to be bovine.
While people worry, stew and fret,
cows ruminate with no regret.
Why should they worry or opine?
They know how to be bovine.
Cows don’t let diets get ‘em flummoxed.
That’s because they have 4 stomachs:
an herbivore’s ideal design -
their goal is eating all-the-time.
There’s grass as far as they can see –
more than they could ever eat.
On prairie in the summertime,
they know how to be bovine.
Like us, cows like to stay together,
just not with a lot of pressure.
Some are often last in line
simply taking their sweet time.
Why take the lead when you can follow?
Why live like there’s no tomorrow?
Up there where the breeze is fine,
They know how to be bovine
CHORUS
Watching cows is therapeutic.
They move to a slower music.
Grazing in the sweet sunshine,
they know how to be bovine.