Key: C
Introduction:
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He was born on a bright day, 1908
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Must have made up his mind that he just couldn't wait
C F C
The labor came on so quick and so fast
C G C
They rushed to town but she just couldn't last
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He entered the world with his daddy playing doctor
C G
A horse for a nursemaid, cattle milling about
C F C
Born in the back of his daddy's ranch wagon
C G C
Into the tools of the trade there was never a doubt
F C
He loved the wide open spaces the best
F C
He looked east every morning, every evening he looked west
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Loved his cowboying ways more than anyone knew
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Cowboy from Catarina, it's open spaces for you
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Cowboy from Catarina, it's open spaces for you
Spent whole days on horseback just explaining the country
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D G D
The eighties rolled around and his skin was wrinkled leather
DA
The hearing had faded and his balance had been better
D G D
But he could still spot a buck three fencelines away
DA
And cowboy from Catarina I wonder where you are today
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Are you down in the draw where the rock faces whistle
DA
Are you sitting amongst the mesquite shrubs and thistles
D G D
Can you smell the whitebrush that the breeze carries by
DA
And are you thanking the angels for your cowboyin' life
G D
Cause you loved the wide open spaces the best
G D
You looked east every morning, every evening you looked out west
G DA
You loved your cowboying ways more than anyone knew
G DA
Cowboy from Catarina, it's open spaces for you
G DA
Cowboy from Catarina, it's open spaces
G D
It's them wide open spaces for you