Key: G
Introduction:
G C/G G G/B
When the boy was no more than a shaver
D D7 G G/B
His old man told many a tale
G C G G/B
How his great granddad used to go drovin?
D D7 G
Back and forth on the old Chisholm Trail
C
Now you might say the boy got infected
G
By a fantasy of the old west
A7
For his heart and his soul got connected
D D7
To a spirit that won?t let him rest
G G/B C D
Now he don?t wear spurs that go jingle
G G/B C D
He don?t spend his nights ?round a fire
G G/B C D D4 D D2 D
And it?s diesel oil that his horses require
G G/B C D
He is a latter day cowboy
G G/B C D
Dressed as a truck drivin? man
G G/B C D G
Drivin? his wheels and his dreams to Cheyenne
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G C G G/B
He beds down by the side of the highway
D D7 G C
At the sight of the first evenin? star
G C G G/B
In the darkness his big pony idles
D D7 G
As he quietly strums his guitar
C
And he sings out a song of his sweetheart
G
Even as her sweet mem?ry grows dim
A7
And he sings of the trail he has chosen
D D7
But the actual fact is the trail chose him
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G G/B C D4 D D2 D
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G G/B C D G
Drivin? his wheels and his dreams to Cheyenne
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