Cowboy Night Herd Song chords by Roy Rogers

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Verse 1
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 (D major)  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) On night guard
I'm a -ridin'
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Around a  (G major) thousand bedded steer (D major) s
And tonight my thoughts are slidin'
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Down the  (E major) trail of distant years  (A major) 
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Coyotes  (D major) howlin' in the darkness
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Kill (G major) s  my weary bones  (D major) 
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Farmhands  (G major) prowl around the  (D major) campfire,
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 (B minor)  (B major) make the  (E major) cowboys feel  (D major) at home.  (G major)  (D major)  (A major) 
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Now the cold north wind is blowin',
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snow comes fall (G major) in'  (D major) down
Wrapped in my saddle blanket,
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 (E major) sleepin' on the cold, cold  (A major) ground
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I  (D major) used to ponder over my luck,
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 (G major) wondered why it never  (D major) changed
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I was  (G major) happy and free around my  (D major) mammy's knee,  (B minor) 
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pullin'  (D major) on her  (A major) apron string (D major) s
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Yodelo dee ay yoh, yo (G major) delo dee ay  (D major) yoh, yodelo ay yoh, yodelo  (A major) dee ay yoh, yodelo  (D major) dee ay yoh, yodelo dee ay yoh,  (G major)  (D major) yodelo dee ay yoh,
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yode (A major) lo dee ay yoh, yodelo yodelo dee dee yoh,  (D major) yodelo dee ay yoh, yodelo ay yoh,  (G major)  (D major)  (E major)  (A major)  (D major)  (G major) 
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 (D major)  (G major)  (D major)  (B major)  (E major)  (A major)  (D major) 
How long to see the sun come shinin',
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feel (G major) in' through my kitchen door?
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 (D major) Just to see my dear old mammy cookin'
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ham on that  (E major) old kitchen stove  (A major) 
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Where the  (D major) mockingbird sings you to sleep at night,
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the moon (G major) beams playin'  (D major) through the trees
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Now some  (G major) like the climate out in
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 (D major) New
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Mexico,  (B major) but  (B minor) give me  (E major) back my  (A major) sunny
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Tenness (D major) ee
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You don't want to cry, you  (G major) want to cry.  (D major) 
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I  (A major) don't want to I want to  (D major) 