Although the song was collectively written by Debbie Hupp, Johnny MacRae, and Bob Morrison, it was recorded and released by Conway Twitty in 1985. The song became Twitty’s 34^th number one single on the Billboard Country Chart (making it to the top, one week after it was released) and spent 13 weeks on the chart. The song entails a description of someone who is posing as a cowboy, but it truly far from it. It is a warning to women: just because he wears fancy designer blue jeans and a Stetson hat, it doesn’t necessarily make him a wrangler. The line “the toughest ride he's ever had was in his foreign car” describes a city-slicker “wannabe” with desires to live the tales of “Texas nights” and the good times that are associated with being a cowboy. However, it also has underlying implementations that he has no real idea of what it takes to be a true Cowboy. The song is marked in history as one of the greatest songs that describes how the grass is always greener for some folks, and also how to spot a phony when you see it.