Key: G
Introduction:
G C G D G C G C G DEm Em G
verse 1
Em G
The covey took wing
D G
Shotguns a singing
C G D
A pointing dog down in the old logging road
Em G
Danny got three
D G
And looked back a grinning
C G D
I fumbled around and I tried to reload
C G
The country was cold
D G
With the sun westward sinking
C G D
It's good to be back in this place
C G
With my hands around
D G
A Belgian made Browning
C G D
My mind on the lines of her face
verse 2
Em G
Well now Danny's my buddy
D G
We grew up like family
C G D
Hunted this timber before we could drive
Em G
The old English pointer
D G
He once belonged to me
C G D
But I gave him up when I moved in '05
C G
Off to the girl
D G
Off to the city
C G D
Off on a wing and a chance
C G
Hell I thought it'd play out
D G
Just like some story
C G D
We fell in love at a rodeo dance
G C G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
C G D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
G C G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
Gºon
verse 3
Em G
Dan says, "Look at old Jim
D G
A dozen Decembers
C G D
Behind him no worse for the wear
Em G
And your time spent in Tulsa
D G
Did not help your shooting
C G D
And look at the gray in your hair
C G
How good does it feel?
D G
You belong in these hills
C G D
It's best that you let it all end
C G
If you'd have married that girl
D G
You'd have married her family
C G D
You dodged a bullet my friend"
G C G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
C G D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
G C G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me
Gºon
verse 4
Em
I was beginning
D
To deal with it ending
Am G D
The old dog had pointed while part of me died
Em
And a flutter of feathers
G
Then a shotgun to shoulder
C G D
I thought of the Fourth of July
C G D
She'll be home on the Fourth of July
C G D
I bet we'll dance on the Fourth of July
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G C G D G C G C G DEm Em G
Verse 5
C G
Dan says, "Hell of a shot
D G
Looks like you've still got it
C G D
That's what we came here to do
C G
It's light enough still
D G
At the foot of the hill
C G D
We could kick up a single or two"
G C G
She said go on back to Cherokee County
C G D
Won't you crawl back with nothing but a razor and a comb
G C G
Babe, if you need me, I'll be where you found me