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The Cowboy Christmas Ball chords by 
Michael Martin Murphey
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Intro 1
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F
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Verse 1
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Way out in West Texas,
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where the Clearfolk waters flow,
Where the cattle are ""a- browzin',
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"" an' the Spanish ponies grow
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Where the Northers ""come a- whist
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G
lin'"" and the ol' dust devils row
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F
And the prairie dogs are sneezin',
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G
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and a'freezin from the cold
Where the lonesome townie prairies
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melt into the airy stream
And the double mountains slumber in the
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heavenly kind of dreams
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Em
Where the antelope is grazin
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G
and the lonely plovers call
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C
G
It was there that I attended ""The Cow
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boys' Christmas Ball.""
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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The music was a fiddle
and a lively tambourine
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And the big imported
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by stage from Amboline
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And the room was togged out gorgeous-
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with mistletoe and shawls,
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And the candles flickered frescoes,
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G
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all around them airy walls.
And the women folk looked lonesome-
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the boys looked kinda treed,
Till the leader commenced to yellin': ""Hey boys,
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let's all stampede, ""
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And the mu sic started sighin',
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G
an' awailin' through the hall
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F
C
G
As a kind of introduction to ""The Cow
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boys' Christmas Ball.""
Interlude 2
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Verse 3
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Now their leader was a feller that
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came from Swenson's ranch,
They called him ""Windy Billy,
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"" from ""little Deadman's Branch.""
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When he commenced to hollerin',
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""Now, fellers stake your pen!
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Gb
""Lock horns with all them heifers,
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an' russle 'em like men.
""Saloot yer lovely critters now
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swing an' let 'em go,
""Climb the grape vine 'round and round,
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boys let's do- ce- do!
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""You Mavericks,
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join the round- up- skip her waterfall, ""
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Gb
Huh! It was gettin' happy,
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The Cowboys' Christmas Ball
Verse 4
Gb
Db
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Now the boys was a little
bit skiddish
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The ladies was powerful to me
That big days finally music made
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us jumpin with both feet
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That wailin' frisky fiddle,
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A
I never will forget
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G
And windy ol' Bill kept singin'
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A
D
and I believe I hear him yet
Oh yes, boys, chasing squirrels,
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cut'em to the side
Doc' Hollis to the center,
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now cross Pete Charlie's bride
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F#m
Turn around you gentle kittens,
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A
I wrote them that ol' song
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G
Hey hittin was gettin' active at thee Cow
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boy's Christmas Ball
Interlude 3
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D
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Verse 5
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And the dust rose fast and furious,
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we all just galloped round
Till the scenery got so dizzy,
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a few ol'cow folks fell down
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We buckled to our partners and
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A
told them to hold on
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G
We shook our hooves like ryman
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A
D
until the early dawn
Verse 6
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Don't tell me 'bout cotillions
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line dancin' no sire'ee!
That dancin' Anson City still
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takes the cake for me.
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Now boys I won't forget ya,
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D
G
D
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I of ten will recall
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Oh no I won't forget it,
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that Cowboys' Christmas Ball.
Outro 1
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