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- From: Shotgun21@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:07:13 -0500
- Subject: TAB: Cowboy Bill by Garth Brooks
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- COWBOY BILL - Garth Brooks
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- Words and Music by:
- Larry B. Bastian and Ed Berghoff
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- Verse:
- C F C
- He told a good story and all us kids listened
- F C G
- 'Bout his life on the border and the way it was then
- C F C =
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- And we all believed, and when he would finish
- F C G C =
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- We'd ask the old cowboy to tell em again
- G/B Am C G/B
- You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin' =
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- Am C Gsus G
- His saddle a crekin 'neath his old faded jeans
- C F C =
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- You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'
- F C G C =
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- As he sat there and he painted those west Texas scenes
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- Chorus:
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- Dm C/E F =
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- And the grown ups would tell us =
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- (And the grown ups that told us) =
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- C =
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- You boys keep your distance
- D7 G
- that old man's just tellin you lies
- C
- But to all us kids
- (Well now they're all sayin')
- F C
- Cowboy Bill was a hero =
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- G C
- Just as true as his blue texas skies.
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- Additional Verses:
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- He told of a time when he rode with the Rangers
- Down on the Pecos and he saved the day
- Outnumbered by plenty, they were almost to cover,
- WIth thirty banditos headed their way.
- He looked back just in time to see a horse stumble,
- The captain wnet down and bill pulled up on his reins.
- And through a flurry of bullets he rescued the captain,
- They rode for a sunset, just the story remains.
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- Well, I still remember the day that it happened
- We waited and waited, but Bill never showed.
- And the folks at the feedstore said they hadn't seen him
- So we set out for his place down Old Grist Mill Road.
- And we Cried when we found him lying there with his Memories
- The old trunk wide open things scattered about.
- And he was clutching a badge that said texas Ranger,
- And an old yeller letter said "Texas is Proud"
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- (To second Chorus)
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