Johnson County War

Johnson County War easy guitar chords by Chris Ledoux

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  • Intro 1





    Headed 
    for Wyoming, 
    Verse 1

    in 
    1882..a woman, 
    a team, and 
    a wagon. 

    Gonna 
    make our 
    dreams come 
    true. 

    Settled 
    in the 
    foot
    hills 
    of 
    the 

    big horn 
    mountain 
    slope. 

    Life 
    is sweet 
    we lived on 
    the meat, 

    of the 
    deer 
    and 
    the antelope. 

    We cut 
    house logs 
    on 
    the mountain, 

    with 
    the 
    team 
    we 
    hauled 'em down. 

    Peeled 
    'em and we 
    stacked 
    'em up, 

    for a house 
    an
    d bought some 
    ground. 

    Traded 
    for some 
    cattle, 

    and turned 
    'em out on 
    the 
    range. 

    The skies 
    were blue and 
    we never 

    knew...how things 
    were gonna change. 

    Ole 
    powder 
    river, 
    you're 
    muddy 
    and 
    wide, 

    how 
    many men 
    have 
    died...upon 

    Your 
    shores. 

    When 
    you 
    brand 
    a man a rust
    ler, 

    he's gotta 
    take 
    side. 

    There's no 
    middle 
    ground in 
    this 

    Johnson 
    country 
    war. 

    Well, 
    the 
    neighbors 
    stopped by 
    yesterday, 

    while I 
    was 
    outside 
    choppin' 

    Some 
    wood. 

    And they filled 
    me in on 
    the local 

    news, ain't 
    none of 
    it sounded good, 

    Said, 
    they'd 
    been some 
    cattle steal
    in', 

    by 
    some no count 
    outlaw 
    bands. 

    We'd all been 
    branded 
    rustler's 

    by the big 
    ranch
    ers 
    of this land. 

    Well 
    it was 
    us 
    against the cattlemen, 

    and 
    the 
    years just 
    made it 
    worse. 

    First the 
    drought, 

    then the tough 
    winter, John
    son county 
    had 
    been dealt 

    A curse, 

    Then 
    their came the 
    story 
    about 

    the 
    two dry 
    gol
    gia tax. 

    Ranger 
    Jones 
    and John 
    Tisdale 

    both been shot 
    in the back 

    Oh, 
    powder 
    river

    you're 
    muddy 
    and you're 
    wide, 

    How 
    many men 
    have 
    died 

    upon your 
    shores. 

    When 
    you 
    brand 
    a man a rust
    ler, 

    he's gotta 
    take 
    side. 

    There's no 
    middle 
    ground in 
    this 

    Johnson 
    county 
    war. 

    Then last 
    night 
    at supper time, 

    riders 
    stopped 
    by 
    chance. 

    They 
    said 
    cattleman 
    and 
    hired 
    guns, just 

    burned 
    the 
    Kaycee ranch, 

    Two 
    men had 
    died this 
    morn
    in', 

    shot down 
    in the snow. 

    Now 
    the vigilante 
    army 

    was march
    in' for buffalo. 

    Well 
    the county 
    was in an uproar, 

    an every 
    man saddled 
    up to 
    ride. 

    Caught the cattlemen 
    at 
    the 
    ta 
    ranch, and 

    sur
    rounded 
    all four 
    sides. 

    We hailed 
    the house 
    with 
    bullets 
    and 

    swore we'd 
    make 'em pay. 

    But 
    the cavalry 
    came 
    across the plains, 

    and 
    once 
    again 
    saved the 
    day. 

    Well, 
    they marched 
    'em off to Chey
    enne, 

    and 
    no one 
    went 
    to jail. 

    The 
    cattlemen 
    we're all 
    turned 

    loose, and the hired 
    guns 
    hit the trail. 

    And 
    guess the 
    only justice, 

    wasn't 
    much 
    to say the least. 

    Last 
    winter me 
    and mine 
    ate mighty fine 

    on 
    the cattle 
    baron's 
    beef. 

    Oh 
    powder 
    river

    you're 
    muddy 
    and you're 
    wide. 

    How 
    many 
    men have 
    died 

    upon your 
    shores. 

    When 
    you 
    brand 
    a man a rust
    ler, 

    he's gotta 
    take 
    side. 

    There's no 
    middle 
    ground in 
    this 

    Johnson 
    county 
    war. 

    There's no 
    middle ground 
    in this 
    Johnson 

    county 
    war 

    Outro 1


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