The Ballad Of William Sycamore chords by
Tom Russell
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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Em
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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 eyes 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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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 buffalo 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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