The Last Cowboy Song
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************ 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)
D 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)
D 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)
D 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
D And wish to God we could have ridden his trail
Verse 4:(spoken-Johnny Cash) and the three others sing the chorus.
D 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)
