Tom: C
Introdução:
C F C
He told a good story and all us kids listened
F C G
'Bout his life on the border and the way it was then
C F C
And we all believed, and when he would finish
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We'd ask the old cowboy to tell em again
G/B Am C G/B
You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin' =
Am C G
His saddle a crekin 'neath his old faded jeans
C F C
You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'
F C G C=
As he sat there and he painted those west Texas scenes
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Dm C/E F
And the grown ups would tell us =
(And the grown ups that told us) =
C
You boys keep your distance
D7 G
that old man's just tellin you lies
C
But to all us kids
(Well now they're all sayin')
F C
Cowboy Bill was a hero =
G C
Just as true as his blue texas skies.
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