Wild Bill Hickok Tab by Colter Wall
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Intro 1
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(G major) (C major) Wild
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Verse 1
(C major) Bill was born in Illinois
on (F major) dry and fertile land (C major)
(F major) Pioneer of (C major) pistol ears
and a (D major) dead shot with each hand (G7)
(F major) Claim he was the (C major) quickest,
there's (F major) few who'd ill-agree (G major) (G7)
If you were (C major) yet to saw this plainsman draw,
still (F major) breathe like you and (C major) me
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Verse 2
He (C major) led a stagecoach freight team
in his (F major) early days of (C major) life
One (F major) evenin' on the Western (C major) Trail,
Bill (D major) took the air of night (G7)
And (F major) who should come upon (C major) him,
but a (F major) bear whom he'd a (G major) woke (G7)
Wild (C major) Bill produced his bowie knife
and (F major) fashioned a new (C major) coat
Interlude 1
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Verse 3
(C major) Kansas prairies he knew well
and (F major) wild Missouri too (C major)
Come (F major) 1861, (C major) Bill donned (D major) the Union (G7) blue
(F major) Not unlike his (C major) daddy,
he'd (F major) seen old man in bonds (G major) (G7)
Every man (C major) in Jimmy Lane's brigade,
of (F major) Hickok they were (C major) fond
Verse 4
While a (C major) marshal in Abilene
many (F major) Texans came to (C major) call
Phil (F major) Coe told John Wes (C major) Hardin,
"Wild (D major) Bill has got to fall" (G7)
"He's a (F major) cruel and brutish (C major) yankee,
and if (F major) you don't then I will" (G major) (G7)
Wild (C major) Bill put down Phil Coe,
Wes Hardin's (F major) livin' (C major) still
Interlude 2
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(C major) He
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Verse 5
(C major) met his fate in (C7) Deadwood
in (F major) side Tom Nuttall's (C major) place
A (F major) midst a game of (C major) poker,
holdin' (D major) Aces and two (G7) Eights
When up (F major) stepped from be (C major) hind him
the (F major) Coward, Jack Mc (G7) Call
The (C major) slug ripped through his (C7) auburn hair,
poor (F major) Wild Bill never (C major) saw
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