Key: D major
Verse 1
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
And now, my friends,
you ask me
B
F#
what makes me sad and still
B
F#
And why my brow is darkened
C#
F#
Run in your pony closer
F#
B
F#
Of Utah Corral, my partner,
C#
F#
and his last ride on the trail
Mid the cactus and the mesquite
F#
B
F#
Where the cattle roam in thousands,
C#
F#
There's a grave with
neither headstone,
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neither date nor name
B
F#
There lies my partner sleeping in
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F#
the land from which I came
We rode the rains together
B
F#
and rode it side by side
B
F#
I loved him as a brother,
C#
F#
We were rounding up one morning,
B
F#
our work was almost done.
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F#
on a mad and fearful run.
The boss's little daughter
B
F#
was holding on that side.
B
F#
She started in to turn them,
G#
C#
that's where my partner died.
B
F#
given her by a friend.
B
F#
It was this bright red blanket
C#
F#
brought Utah to his end.
As Beryl rushed her pony
B
F#
at the cattle on the right
B
F#
The blanket slipped beneath her
C#
F#
When the cowboy saw the blanket,
F#
B
F#
If now should the pony fail her,
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F#
none could save her from her death
When Barrow saw the cattle,
B
F#
she turned her pony's face
B
F#
She leaned from out her saddle -tide,
C#
F#
But in leaning, lost her blanket,
F#
B
F#
Lie still, Barrow, I'm com ing,
C#
F#
were the words my partner cried
About 15 yards behind her,
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F#
Utah come ridin' fast
B
F#
Though he never saw that mo ment,
G#
C#
the ride would be his last
F#
B
F#
He swung from out the saddle
C#
F#
to catch her from the ground
But the cinches of his saddle
F#
B
F#
and his backstitch snapped asunder
C#
F#
He now picked up the blanket
B
F#
and swung it over his head
B
F#
and started across the prairie
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F#
lie still Barrow he said.
His six gun flashed like lightning
F#
B
as the cattle rushed to kill him
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G#
C#
he dropped the leading steer
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B
F#
with many a wound and bruise,
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F#
his young life had ebbed away
And in some future morning
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B
F#
I hope we'll all meet Utah
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G#
at the roundup far away
C#
F#
Then we wrapped him in a blanket,
F#
B
And was that very blanket
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C#
F#
B
F#
C#
F#
that brought Utah to his end
You
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