Key: C major
Verse 1
F#
A#m
B
C#
F#
The sun burns
A#m
B
C#
the snow high on the mountain
F#
A#m
C#
F#
It runs and it grows as it falls
C#
D#m
G#
C#
Silt and soil, down they boil
F#
C#
Down through the valley
F#
A#m
B
C#
F#
the gold river rolls to the place.
A#m
B
C#
The rangeland lies high up from the river.
A#m
B
C#
F#
where the short grass grows.
B
D#m
G#
C#
Fields of hay, cottonwood shade,
F#
C#
green patch of home.
F#
A#m
Through the high dusty land
B
C#
F#
the river flows.
B
C#
Boys practice roping,
A#m
C#
F#
C#
D#m
The night rolls on, lives of pride
G#
C#
Men who ride,
F#
C#
they keep the old skills
F#
A#m
B
C#
F#
A#m
B
C#
F#
That came up the trail from Mexico
A#m
B
C#
F#
C#
D#m
G#
C#
F#
C#
F#
A#m
B
C#
F#
B
C#
through green years and dry years
A#m
B
C#
F#
and we ship them in the fall
C#
D#m
G#
C#
The new coals fold, the mare grows old,
F#
C#
F#
Cycles of changes in this
B
C#
F#
Where the short grass grows.
C#
F#
Cycles of changes in this
B
C#
F#
Where the short grass grows.
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