Key: D major•
Intro 1
D
Verse 1
A
D
As I walked out in the Laredo one day,
A
D
I spy the poor cowboy,
all wrapped up in linen,
A
D
wrapped in white linen,
G
A
D
G
D
as cold as the clay.
I see by your outfit
F#m
D
that you are a cowboy.
G
D
Those words he did say
A
D
Em
G
D
A
as I lonely walked by
D
G
D
A
and hear my sad story
and I know I must die
It was once in the saddle I
used to go dashing,
G
D
once in the saddle I used to go gay.
First down to Rosie's,
Em
A
D
G
then to the card house,
D
G
I'm shot in the breast,
D
Bb
and I'm dying today.
Eb
Bb
Eb
Get sixteen gamblers to carry my coffin
Bb
Eb
Get six pretty maidens
Ab
Bb
to sing me a song
Bb
Eb
Bb
and lay the sod o 'er me
Bb
Ab
Bb
and I, I know I've done wrong
Eb
Em
Oh, beat the drum slowly,
and play the fife thoroughly
play the dead march
as they carry me along
put bunches of roses all over my coffin
roses to deaden the clouds
as they fall
E
F#m
B
E
as i walk down the streets of laredo
B
E
B
Oh, as I walked out on the radar one day,
E
F#m
B
C#
F#m
B
I spied a poor cow boy,
all wrapped up in linen,
E
A
wrapped in white linen,
F#m
B
E
Em
B
as cold, as cold as the clay.
F#m
B
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