Wild West Show chords by Michael Martin Murphey

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Warping Feathers
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Ice Cream Cake Navajo Blankets
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and the Poisonous Snake Shark
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Shooting Cowgirls on
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the Trick Rattles Free
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It's the goddangest thing
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that you'll ever get to see
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Now all the kids holler from the bandstand
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For an autographed picture
of a medicine man
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When out comes Annie Oakley
with a pearl -handled gun
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Says she can out -shoot anyone
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It's the Wild West Show
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It's the Wild West Show
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It's the Wild West Show!
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Everybody goes to the Wild
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West Show!
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Cowboys and Injuns must be
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making the news
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They're printing up a lot of tickets,
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Lottery writing reviews
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They're making a million dollars,
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But there ain't no  one to blame
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Critics don't like it,
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So everyone came
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They're sayin' the paper
That they've got sittin' full
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Talkin' jobs  and no tellin'
What that engine might pull
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So save up your money, boys
And maybe we'll go
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Like Matthew will stay
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For the whole damn show
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It's a Wild West show
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It's a Wild West show
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It's a Wild West show
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They've got real buffalos
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at the Wild Women's Show
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Buffalo Bill comes out
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in real buckskin pants
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He rides a white stallion
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while the Indians dance
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And they hoop and they holler
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and they shoot off their flanks
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Old Bill must be laughing
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all the way through the bank
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You know it's just like the real thing,
although it ain't real
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The Indians, baby, it's part of the deal
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The spectator's eye will let
me stare gaggle -eyed
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Got it sweeping the country,
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it's gone nationwide
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It's the Wild West Show
Everybody go!
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It's the Wild West Show
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It's the Wild West Show
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Ginuwine, Buffalo,
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and the Wild West Show