The Last Cowboy Song Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Chorus

all together):

ThiDs is the last cowboy song

The end of a hundred year waGltz

The voAices sound sad as they're singing along

Another piece of America is lDost

Verse 1

(Waylon Jennings)

He rDides the feed lots,works in a market

On weekend selling tobacco and Abeer

He dreams of tommorrow surrounded by fences

But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't hDere

Verse 2

(Kris Kristofferson)

He Dblazed the trail with Lewis and Clark

And eyeball to eyeball old Wyatt backed dAown

He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas

And rode with the Seventh when Custer went dDown

Chorus.

Verse 3

(Willie Nelson)

RemDington showed us how he looked on canvas

And Louis Lamour told us his tAale

Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him

And wish to God we could have ridden his trDail

Verse 4

(spoken-Johnny Cash) and the three others sing the chorus.

TheD old chisom trail is covered in concrete

They truck it to market in fifty foot rGigs

TheAy roll by his graveside and don't even notice

Like living and dieing was all he ever Ddid

Chorus.