Cowboy Bill lyrics and chords

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Cowboy Bill
Recorded by Garth Brooks
Written by Larry Bastian and Ed Berghoff

C                                  F    C
He told a good story and all of us kids listened
                                               G7
Bout his life on the border and the way it was then
    C                        F        C
And we all believed and when he would finish
                           G7       C
We'd ask the old cowboy to tell 'em again

          Am                C
You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin'
    Am                          C            G7
His saddle a creaking neath his old faded jeans
          C                                 F      C
You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'
                                     G7         C
As he sat there and he painted those west Texas scenes

        F                           C
And the grown-ups would tell us you boys keep your distance
     D7                         G7
That old man's just tellin' you lies
       C                     F          C
But to all of us kids Cowboy Bill was a hero
                    G7         C
Just as true as his blue Texas sky

                               F        C
He told of a time when he rode with the Rangers
                                   G7
Down on the Pecos and he saved the day
   C                                   F  C
Outnumbered by plenty they were almost to cover
                     G7           C
With thirty banditos headed their way

          Am                   C
He looked back just in time to see a horse stumble
    Am                                C         G7
The captain went down and Bill pulled up on his reins
          C                            F   C
Through a flurry of bullets he rescued the captain
                                G7     C
They rode for a sunset just the story remains

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                             F       C
But I still remember the day that it happened
                                       G7
We waited and we waited but Bill never showed
    C                                 F      C
The folks at the feed store said they hadn't seen him
                                 G7             C
So we set out for his place down Old Grist Mill Road

       Am                            C
And we cried when we found him lying there with his memories
    Am                         C         G7
The old trunk wide open things scattered about
       C                           F     C
He was clutchin' a badge that said Texas Ranger
                              G7       C
And an old yeller letter said Texas is proud

          F                         C
And those grown-ups had told us you boys keep your distance
     D7                         G7
That old man's just tellin' you lies
C                                       F     C
Now they're all sayin' that Cowboy Bill was a hero
                    G7         F
Just as true as his blue Texas skies
        C           G7         C
Just as true as his blue Texas skies

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