Key: D major•
Verse 1
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Em
Eb
to Baltimore, or Borneo,
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E
G
to Eastern Pennsylvania or Sudan,
If you go to that land, sonny,
Ab
D
you will have a lot of money,
if you bring the money
with you when you come.
G
D
To the Long Prairie,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee,
yippee -yee,
yippee -yee, yippee -yee, yippee -yee.
Before you read a travel ad
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Em
G
D
The West, young man.
In the East they live on donuts,
go nuts if you come.
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D
To the lone prairie
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A
D
yippie -yi, yippie -yi, yippie -yi
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B
Go where the air puts head on your chest,
young man
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E
D
You can ride a buck and bronco or a pony
A
D
You can cut a cap in
half and make baloney
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D
Bm
Go west, young man.
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Eb
E
and give it the very best you can .
Bb
B
Em
D
don't go east, have a care.
don't go here, don't go there.
B
D
Bb
You may not bag a lion or a tiger or a bear,
there are plenty of them there,
go west, young man
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Em
B
And you complain about the rain,
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A
D
It isn't raining rain,
C#
D
you know it's raining orange juice,
go west, young man
The judges there are very fair,
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Eb
Em
The cowboy and his missus
G
Em
went to court for a divorce
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D
B
A
Young man, go out and till the soil there.
B
A
and you'll find oil there.
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Eb
B
When the snow flies, as the crow flies,
Em
Eb
A
Em
go westward home.
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Ab
If there's a cattle shortage,
Em
Eb
And they can't find a hunk of meat
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C#
D
They sit around and beef about the
beef they haven't got
Em
D
Eb
Go away, young man!
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G
D
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsD G Em Eb E...
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