Key: D major•
Intro 1
Bm
G
D
Bm
E
A
D
Verse 1
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G
It was a cold and
Bm
E
Em
With hats in hand, a group of solemn men
A
D
G
were gathered round a shallow grave
G
E
to pay their last respect
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D
s to an old friend
Bm
G
Now Curly was the first to speak
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E
Em
I remember when he come out here
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D
G
He throwed a big John Blocker lute
G
E
And I helped him rope a
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D
thousand longhorn steers
G
A
We rolled him in the wagon sheet
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D
and laid him in the ground
Bm
E
Then piled up rock so old
Em
A
he's worn all his bones
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A
Shy and cut a cross of cedar
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E
We sang for another cow
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D
boy's comin' home
Bm
G
Then Billy Fred remembered
Bm
E
Until the blue Rome broke
Em
A
him up real bad
D
G
And Macintosh, the wagon boss,
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E
Remarked, the lad's the
A
D
be st cowboy we had
Bm
G
And then it came my time to speak,
Bm
E
I held the tears back so they
Em
A
wouldn't show
D
G
I bit my lip and swallowed hard,
D
G
but all that I could say was
E
A
I'll miss you, Papa.
G
A
We rolled him in the wagon shed
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D
and laid him in the ground
Bm
E
Then piled up rock soles on
Em
A
all his bones
G
A
Cheyenne cut a cross of cedar
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G
with his Barlow knife
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D
another cowboy's coming home
G
A
Cheyenne cut a cross of cedar
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E
We sang, Lord,
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D
another cowboy's coming home
Gm
Gdim
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