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.