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