Key: G minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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my heart was sadly grieving.
San
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Antonio grieving.
I started up the trail with
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the prairie winds was a sighing.
As the herd lined out,
I heard the shout of old
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Charlie, goodnight dearly
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from a home that I loved dearly
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the first drive to be mak in'
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I can't say why, but I said good -bye
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To a mother's heart a -breakin'
And the cattle they bought
and the herd just crawled
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As they grazed them along the way
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The rivers we crossed and
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And we watched them swept away
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As they cursed the thirst and the weather
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A wearison's stride is a
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cowboy's life,
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Bone, beans, and pound and leather.
Mmm.
I headed up the trail with
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Old blue was a -leadin' out steady.
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A scout rode out on a northward route
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to get the bedround ready.
As I lay that night in a campfire's light,
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Just memories to re mind me
Of a mother's love, and the
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And the world that left behind me.
As I rode along the trail with
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The dark sky sent us a -praying,
St.
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On the backs of the longhorns playing.
And the heavens they riled,
and the herd went wild,
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Like a devil had come to vex us.
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Just a wishle -nag stayed in
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Texas
And the cattle they bawled
and the herd just crawled
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As we grazed them along the way
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The rivers we crossed and
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And we watched them swept away
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Each mile to me an eternity
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As I curse the thirst and the weather
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A wearisome stride,
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On beans and pounds and leather
As I rode along the trail with
The
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Canadian's banks were a -spillin'
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Till we finally stopped a -millin'
Then a rustler's raid was a visit paid
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With lead and hail to pay
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And I wrote that night and I learned to fight
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But better how to pray
The trail was hard on
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To dodge the rain kept a -fallin'
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The cow boys all were fools to fall
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For every vice a -callin'
And as the raindrops splashed
and the lightning flashed
As
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Sodom's flames were burnin'
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just a -lookin' back again.
And the cattle they bawled, and the herd just crawled,
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as we grazed them along the way.
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The rivers we crossed, and the stock we lost,
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and we watched them swept away.
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as I cursed the thirst and the weather.
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No wearisome strife,
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On beans and pounds and leather
Started down the trail with
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Charlie and the boys
Back to good old
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Where the only fears I dreaded
And if I ever get back to that one -room
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shack I swear that I will never
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Go up that trail in the rain and the hail
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On beans and pound and leather
And the cattle they bawled
and the herd just crawled
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As we praised them along the way
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The rivers we crossed and
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And we watched them swept away
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As I cursed the thirst and the weather
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A wearisome strife is a cowboy's life
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On beans and pound and leather
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A wearisome strife is a cowboy's life
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On beans and pound and leather
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Mmmmmmm.
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