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Johnson County War

Johnson County War easy guitar chords by Chris Ledoux

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  • Intro 1
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    Dm
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    Headed for Wyoming,
    Verse 1

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    in 1882..a woman, a team, and a wagon.
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    G
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    Gonna make our dreams come true.
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    Settled in the foothills of the
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    big horn mountain slope.

    Life is sweet we lived on the meat,
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    Am

    of the deer and the antelope.

    We cut house logs on the mountain,
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    with the team we hauled 'em down.

    Peeled 'em and we stacked 'em up,
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    for a house an d bought some ground.
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    Traded for some cattle,
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    and turned 'em out on the range.
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    The skies were blue and we never
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    knew...how things were gonna change.
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    C
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    Ole powder river, you're muddy and wide,
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    how many men have died...upon
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    Your shores.
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    When you brand a man a rustler,
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    he's gotta take a side.

    There's no middle ground in this
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    Dm
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    Johnson country war.
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    Well, the neighbors stopped by yesterday,
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    while I was outside choppin'
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    Some wood.

    And they filled me in on the local
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    A

    news, ain't none of it sounded good,
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    Said, they'd been some cattle stealin',
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    by some no count outlaw bands.

    We'd all been branded rustler's
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    A

    by the big ranchers of this land.
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    Well it was us against the cattlemen,
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    Am

    and the years just made it worse.

    First the drought,
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    Dm

    then the tough winter, Johnson county had been dealt

    A curse,
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    C

    Then their came the story about
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    Am

    the two dry golgia tax.
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    Ranger Jones and John Tisdale
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    both been shot in the back
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    C

    Oh, powder river,
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    you're muddy and you're wide,
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    C

    How many men have died
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    upon your shores.
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    C

    When you brand a man a rustler,
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    Am

    he's gotta take a side.

    There's no middle ground in this
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    A
    Am

    Johnson county war.
    A

    Then last night at supper time,
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    Am

    riders stopped by chance.
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    They said cattleman and hired guns, just
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    Am

    burned the Kaycee ranch,
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    Two men had died this mornin',
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    shot down in the snow.
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    Now the vigilante army
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    was marchin' for buffalo.
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    Am

    Well the county was in an uproar,
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    Dm
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    an every man saddled up to ride.
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    Caught the cattlemen at the ta ranch, and
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    surrounded all four sides.
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    C

    We hailed the house with bullets and
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    swore we'd make 'em pay.
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    But the cavalry came across the plains,
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    Am

    and once again saved the day.
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    Well, they marched 'em off to Cheyenne,
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    and no one went to jail.
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    F

    The cattlemen we're all turned
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    loose, and the hired guns hit the trail.
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    And I guess the only justice,
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    wasn't much to say the least.
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    Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine
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    Am
    G
    E

    on the cattle baron's beef.
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    C

    Oh powder river,
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    you're muddy and you're wide.
    F
    C

    How many men have died
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    upon your shores.
    F
    C

    When you brand a man a rustler,
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    Am

    he's gotta take a side.

    There's no middle ground in this
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    Am

    Johnson county war.
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    There's no middle ground in this Johnson
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    county war
    Outro 1
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    F
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