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The Ballad Of William Sycamore chords by 
Tom Russell
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Verse 1
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My father was a mountaineer
D
G
His fist was a knotty hammer
C
He was quick on his feet
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Em
like a runnin' deer
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C
And he spoke with a Yankee
G
stammer
Verse 2
C
G
Em
And some are wrapped in linen fine
C
G
And some like a godling's scion
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G
Em
But I was cradled on twigs of pine
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C
G
In the skin of a mountain lion
Verse 3
G
I lost my boyhood and found my wife
D
G
A girl like a Salem clipper
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G
Em
A woman as straight as a hunting knife
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Gm
C
G
With eye s as bright as the Dipper
Verse 4
C
We cleared our camp where the
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Em
C
buffalo feed
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Unheard of streams were our flagons
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G
Em
And I sowed my sons like apple seed
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C
G
On the trail of the Western wagons
Verse 5
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They were right, tight boys,
Gm
G
never sulky or slow
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G
A fruitful, goodly muster
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G
Em
The eldest died at the Alamo
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C
And the youngest fell with Custer
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Verse 6
C
G
Em
C
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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Em
fenced my land
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C
G
Oh it broke my heart just to see it
Verse 7
C
G
Em
C
I saddled the red, unbroken colt
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I rode him into the day there
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G
But he threw me down like a thunderbolt
Em
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C
G
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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G
Like the seed of a prairie thistle
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G
Em
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
G
Verse 9
C
And my youth returns,
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Em
like the rains of Spring
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G
My sons, like wild geese flying
C
G
Em
And I lie and I hear the meadowlark sing
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C
G
And there's much content in my dying
Verse 10
C
Go play with the town you have
Gm
Em
C
built out of blocks
G
The towns where you may have bound me
C
I sleep in the earth like
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Em
a tired old fox
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C
G
And my buffalo have found me
Verse 11
C
G
I sleep in the earth like a tired old fox,
Em
G
C
G
And my buffalo have found me
Outro 1
G
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