“One hand hold is all you got, It’s you and the bull against the clock,” wrote Rodney Crowell in this classic song for Johnny Cash’s Album Silver in 1979. The song is about the skill it takes to ride, and the dangers of the ride itself. “Like a hurricane dancing with a kite,” Cash tells the story of what it feels like to be in the hot seat from the moment the chute opens to the last second of the ride. With a haunting chorus that states, “live fast, die young,” the song “Bull Rider” will go down in history as one of rodeo’s most famous laments to the men who risk their lives for a chance to ride.