The Last Cowboy Song

												

************ THE LAST COWBOY SONG ************

performed by Waylon Jennings
 Kris Kristofferson
 Johnny Cash
 Willie Nelson


Chorus (all together):
 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
 D
 Another piece of America is lost


Verse 1:(Waylon Jennings)
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 He rides the feed lots,works in a market
 A
 On weekend selling tobacco and beer

 He dreams of tommorrow surrounded by fences
 D
 But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here


Verse 2:(Kris Kristofferson)
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 He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
 A
 And eyeball to eyeball old Wyatt backed down

 He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
 D
 And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down


Chorus.


Verse 3:(Willie Nelson)
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 Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
 A
 And Louis Lamour told us his tale

 Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him
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 And wish to God we could have ridden his trail


Verse 4:(spoken-Johnny Cash) and the three others sing the chorus.
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 The old chisom trail is covered in concrete
 G
 They truck it to market in fifty foot rigs
 A
 They roll by his graveside and don't even notice
 D
 Like living and dieing was all he ever did


Chorus.


Thanks to David M. Potter for the lyrics.
Perret Charles-Amir.(perret@diva.univ-mlv.fr)