A Cowboy Went To Sea chords by Ace Ford

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Verse 1
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He said a fever took her,
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that's all they knew to say
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So with a pickaxe and a shovel,
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he fought the ground all day
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But it was mostly hard rock,
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so it was a shallow tomb
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But he scattered flower
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seeds   around,
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maybe next spring some will bloom
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He walked back to the cabin
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and he set the place on fire
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Kicked down all the fences
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and just let the stock run
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wild
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Except for one wrong pony,
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then he set a great store by.
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He took a duster and a bedroll,
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and he left without goodbyes.
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Six hundred miles of Texas,
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that's a hard twelve day ride.
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Through the cactus and the
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rattlesnakes,
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where the sun could tan your hide
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Outside Mandera,
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he spent the night up in a cave
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Hiding from a party,
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a renegade Kiowa braves
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Cause he'd never seen the ocean,
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but he'd heard it all described
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It's all she used to talk about,
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had deep, and blue, and white.
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So a cowboy went to sea.
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Two days out of Galveston
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he began to smell salt air
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And he an  d that worn out pony
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sure made a ragged pair
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When he led her down Strand Av enue
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right out to the beach
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Dropped the reins and that pony
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stood right there within reach
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He stared out at the waves,
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where they fell upon the land
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The cowboy at the ocean,
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with his heels in the sand
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It was wide just like she told him,
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and it sure enough looked deep
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He could see why the memories
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were ones that she would keep
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And he stared at it for hours
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until the sun set in that sky
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It was blue, well that was true,
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but nothing like her eyes
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So he mounted that old pony
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and he headed on back west
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Now he's seen the ocean,
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and now his heart can rest
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Cause he'd never seen the ocean
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Although he'd heard it all described
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It's all she used to talk about
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How deep and blue and wide
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So a cowboy went to sea
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