Old Jake chords by Chris LeDoux

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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 (D major) Now old Jake was a cowboy he'd worked
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his whole life on the  (G major) range
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And he could  (D major) rope,
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and he  (A major) could ride with any man just half his age  (D major) 
Old Jake was my hero and me I was
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just a green kid  (G major) 
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 (A major) And  I prayed that someday I could do
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all the things old Jake did  (D major) 
Well we sat around the bunk house one
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cold and lonely winter's night  (G major) 
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Just chewin'  (A major) and talkin' and smokin'
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by the coal oil light  (D major) 
Well old Jake had been aweful quiet that
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evenin' and he stared hard and long  (G major) 
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He said young  (A major) puncher you goin'
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to remember me after I'm gone  (D major) 
Whatever happens to old
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cowboy heros  (G major) like me
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A  (A major) broken down part of a man I used to be  (D major) 
Will I be forgotten or live on
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in your memory  (G major)  (E minor) 
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 (A major) Whatever happens to old
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cowboy heros like  (D major) me

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Verse 2
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 (D major) 
It's been a long time and oh
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how the years fade away  (G major) 
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Well I stopped  (A major) by the bunk house were
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me and old Jake used to stay  (D major) 
They say Jake died about ten years ago and they
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buried him out there on the plains  (G major) 
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Old  (A major) friend you might be gone but your memory always
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stays the same  (D major)  (G major)  (A major)  (D major) 
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 (D major) 
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 (A major) Whatever happens...
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