The Cowboys Song

Intro: C G F F C G C

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Pushin horns weren't easy
         F               C
like the movie says it was
C
I don't remember dance hall girls
   G
Or hotel rooms with rugs
           C
You worked hot and tired and nasty
          F               C
Rode your pony's head too low
                        G
And all them nights you couldn't sleep
      F
Cause it was too damn cold
           C           G            C
And we sing Strawberry Roan, Little Joe

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Like the time we hit the river
        F                C
And the rain begun to fall
C
The water risin' so damn fast
     G
We thought it'd drown us all
       C
Now we lost a lot of steers that day
    F                  C
And four or five good mounts
                           G
But when all the boys rode into camp
F
We knew that's what counts
            C             G             C
And we sang, yippie ti yi yay, Amazing Grace

C
Or the night they broke behind us
         F                C
And they took us by surprise
C
I whistled out to Bonner
          G
I saw the terror in his eyes
       C
And he rode for all his horse would ride
      F                 C
And I know he done his best
                     G
But he crossed over Jordan
       F
Ridin' Dunny to his death
            C                   G                     C
And we sang, Bringing in the Sheaves and The Rugged Cross

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When you see the cowboy
         G               D
He's not ragged by his choice
D
And he never meant to bow them legs
            A
Or put that gravel in his voice
      D
Just chasin' what he really loves
       G               D
What's burnin' in his soul
                     A                G
Wishin' to hell that he'd been born a hundred years ago
             D           A               D
Still singin' Strawberry Roan and Little Joe
                         A                  D
still singin' Strawberry Roan... and Little Joe