The Ballad Of William Sycamore chords by
Tom Russell

N/A

Key: Bb major•

Verse 1

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My father was a mountaineer

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His fist was a knotty hammer

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He was quick on his feet

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like a runnin' deer

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And he spoke with a Yankee

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stammer

Verse 2

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And some are wrapped in linen fine

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And some like a godling's scion

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But I was cradled on twigs of pine

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In the skin of a mountain lion

Verse 3

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I lost my boyhood and found my wife

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A girl like a Salem clipper

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A woman as straight as a hunting knife

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With eye s as bright as the Dipper

Verse 4

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We cleared our camp where the

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buffalo feed

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Unheard of streams were our flagons

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And I sowed my sons like apple seed

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On the trail of the Western wagons

Verse 5

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They were right, tight boys,

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never sulky or slow

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A fruitful, goodly muster

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Gm

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The eldest died at the Alamo

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And the youngest fell with Custer

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Verse 6

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The letter that told it burned my hand

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I smiled and said, "So be it!"

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But I could not live when they

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fenced my land

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Oh it broke my heart just to see it

Verse 7

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I saddled the red, unbroken colt

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I rode him into the day there

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But he threw me down like a thunderbolt

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And he rolled on me as I lay there

Verse 8

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Now I lie in the heart of the fat, black soil

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Like the seed of a prairie thistle

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It has washed my bones in honey and oil

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And it's picked 'em as

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clean as a whistle

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Verse 9

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And my youth returns,

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like the rains of Spring

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My sons, like wild geese flying

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And I lie and I hear the meadowlark sing

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And there's much content in my dying

Verse 10

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Go play with the town you have

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built out of blocks

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The towns where you may have bound me

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I sleep in the earth like

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a tired old fox

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And my buf falo have found me

Verse 11

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I sleep in the earth like a tired old fox,

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And my buffalo have found me

Outro 1

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsBb F Eb Gm Bbm

Bb
F
Eb
Gm
Bbm

Capo: 3

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Bb
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Gm
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Capo: 3

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