Old Timer Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

ID grew upA in Wyoming

In and around Jackson's hDole

In the shadAows of the Tetons

Where summers are hot

And winters unbearably cDold

But the SGpring and the Fall

Are always as good as it gDets

For over A70 years now

I'd watch the sun rise and Dset

Verse 2

I've beeAn a cowboy

Working the round-ups in sprDing

I've livAed in the mountains

Hunted the grizzly

Trapping the rivers and strDeams

AlwaGys the loner

I've treasured my freedom the mDost

And though Ai never married

As a young man i might have come clDose

Verse 3

FrGom somewhere back east

She came to the valley

With a mDan who did her no good

He was fGast with the ladies

A tin horn gambler

And a cDheat whenever he could

She hadG no friends or family

Most of the time he was gDone

He dAied in a card game

And she found herself all alDone

Verse 4

AlGone and afraid and left unprotected

'Cause hDe was all that she had

MayGbe i should have

But i never told her

So sheD never knew he was bad

But Gi'll always remember

Standing and watching her Dcry

There was Ano one to help her

But i was determined to tDry

Verse 5

I menAded her fences and

Fixed up her cabin

I had everything looking gDood

I laAid by her food

And wood for the winter

Helping wherever i cDould

The mGore i was around her

The more i wanted to Dbe

There wasA something about her

That brought out a good side of Dme

Verse 6

I wGent into town,i brought a new outfit

I gotD me a haircut and shave

I'd tGrek through the snow

For no good reason

Just to Dgo by her cabin each day

I don't Gknow about love

But i was quite taken in by it aDll

Till herA brother came in the Spring

And he took her back to St. PDaul

Verse 7

I don't Ago down to Jackson

Ain't nothing there but motels and bDars

Too daAmn many tourists

No place to hide

They'll find you wherever you aDre

They like to calGl me old timer

I am getting older i guDess

But i doAn't like the changes

'Cause i've seen it all at its bDest

Verse 8

When my lAife is over

I don't want to be left in tDown

But uAp in the mountains

There is a place

I've marked off my own piece of grDound

HigGh in the Tetons

Above and away from it Dall

From theA top of old Grand

I bet on a clear day - you can see

All the way to St. PDaul