Johnson County War chords by Ned LeDoux

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Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Headed for Wyoming in 1882
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A woman, a team
and a dragon
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Gonna make our dreams come true
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Settled in the foothills of the big,
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Worn mountain slopes
Life was sweet, we lived on the meat of
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The Deer and the Antelope

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Verse 2
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We cut house logs up on the
mountain
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With a team we hauled 'em down
Built and we stacked 'em up
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[?] some bottom ground
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Traded for some cattle,
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Turned them out on the open range
Skies were blue but
we never knew
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How things were gonna change
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Old Powder

Verse 3
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River, you're muddy
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And you're wide
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How many men have died
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along your shore
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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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Johnson County War
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Verse 4
When the neighbours
stopped by yesterday
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While I was outside chopping wood
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To  fill me in on the local news
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Ain't none of it sounded good
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Said there's been some cattle stealing
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By some local outlaw band
We'd all been branded rustlers
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By the big ranchers of this land

Verse 5
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So it's us against the cattle
men
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And the years just made it worse
First the drought and then
the tough winter
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Johnson County been dealt a curse
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Then there came a story
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about the two [?]
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Harrisson Jones and John Tisdale,
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both shot in
The back
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Verse 6
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Old Powder River,  you're muddy
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And you're wide
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How many men have died
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along your shore
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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
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this Johnson County War

Verse 7
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Then last night at supper time
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Well a rider stopped by chance
He said the cattle men, their hired guns
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Just burned the Casey ranch
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Two men had died this morning
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Shot down in the snow
Now the vigilante army was
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on the march to Buffalo

Verse 8
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Well the county was in an uproar
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Every man saddled up to ride
They got the cattle men
at the T.A ranch
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And surrounded all four sides
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They [?] the house with bullets
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Swore they were [?]
Then the calvary came from
across the plains
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Once again they saved the day

Verse 9
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Well they marched them off
to Cheyenne
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No one went to jail
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The cattle men were all turned loose
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And their 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
Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine
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On the cattle burns beef

Verse 10
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Old Powder River,  you're muddy
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And you're wide
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How many men have died
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along your shore
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When you brand a man a rustler,
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He's gotta take a side
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No middle ground in this Johnson
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County War