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