"I Wanna Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" is a country and western song written in 1934 and first recorded in 1935 by Rubye Blevins, who performed as Patsy Montana.

It was the first country song by a female artist to sell more than one million copies.

[5] Montana wrote the song in 1934 when she was feeling lonely and missing her boyfriend; it was recorded a year later when producer Art Satherley, of ARC Records, needed one more song at a Prairie Ramblers recording session.

Patsy Montana embellished the simpler musical pattern of the original, especially with her yodeling.

Patsy also used a lot of the original words: the song is somewhat of a feminine answer to its precursor.