Rocky chords by Fred Eaglesmith

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Verse 1
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Rocky, I'm writing you this letter
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I'm in the Sunset Home
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Em 
My grand kids went and put me  here
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D 
They got everything I own
I know you're out in Albuquerque
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D 
I saw Freddie just last week
He said your eyesight's
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Em 
failing you
And your mouth's too sore
A 
to speak

Verse 2
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Rocky, I've been thinking lately
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How we never got along
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G 
How mostly I was right
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Em 
A 
And sometimes I was wrong
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D 
Remember that horse we bought in Tulsa
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D 
It was afraid of the startin' gun
You'd fill his ears full
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Em 
of cotton
A 
And all the money that we won

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Verse 3

Rocky, you sure were a good cowboy

You did sure could rope and ride

I always told you not to chew

that goddamned tobacco

You coulda listened just one time

Verse 4
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They don't show many
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Westerns on TV here
D 
They took away my gun
But I still got that Western
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G 
Em 
saddle
A 
The one we stole from Freddie's son

Verse 5
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Rocky, I hear that they're
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feeding you
D 
And it sure do make me sad
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I never thought in all my
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Bm 
Em 
days
A 
You'd ever end up like that
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Remember that trailer in Minnesota
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G 
D 
That axle broke right in two
We wired it together with four-
Bm 
Em 
by- fours
A 
And we drove the whole night through

Verse 6
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Rocky, you sure were a good cowboy
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G 
D 
You did sure could rope and ride
I always told you not to chew that
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Em 
goddamned tobacco
A 
You coulda listened just one time
D 
So, Rocky,

Verse 7
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I'll just sign off now
D 
I've been up most of the night
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I just wanted to tell you
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when I heard the news
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A 
D 
It damned near made me cry
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D 
Re member that gun we bought in Reno
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You shot Freddie right
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through the hand
You wrapped it up in your be
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Em 
st Western shirt
A 
Gave him all the money you had

Verse 8
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Rocky, you sure were
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G 
a good cowboy
D 
You did sure could rope and ride
I always told you not to chew
Bm 
that goddamned tobacco
Em 
A 
You coulda listened just one time
D 
You coulda listened just one time