The last
cowboy song
D
This is the last cowboy song,
G
the end of a hundred-year waltz,
A
the voices sound sad as they're
singing along,
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another piece of America is lost.
D
1. He rides the feed lots, clerks in a market,
A
on
weekends selling tobacco and beer.
A
And his dreams of tomorrow are
surrounded by fences,
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but
he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here.
D
2. He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark,
A
and
eyeball to eyeball old Wyatt backed down.
A
He stood shoulder to shoulder
with Travis in Texas,
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and
rode with the Seventh when Custer went down.
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D
3. Remington showed us how he looked on canvas,
A
and
Louis Lamour has told us his tale.
A
Me
and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him,
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and
wish to God we could have ridden his trail.
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(Highwaymen)