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Cowboys Lament by Burl Ives - Guitar Chords
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Version 1
F C7
F C7
F C7 F C7
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
F Bb F C7
As I walked out in Laredo one day
F C7 F C7
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
F Bb C7 F
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay
F C7 F C7
I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy
F Bb F C7
These words he did say as I boldly walked by
F C7 F C7
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story
F Bb C7 F
I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die
F C7 F C7
It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing
F Bb F C7
Once in the saddle I used to go gay
F C7 F C7
First down to Rosie's and then to the card house
F Bb C7 F
Got shot in the breast and I'm dying today
F C7 F C7
Get sixteen gamblers to handle my coffin
F Bb F C7
Get six jolly cowboys to sing me a song
F C7 F C7
Take me to the graveyard and lay the sod o'er me
F Bb C7 F
For I'm a young cowboy and know I've done wrong
F C7 F C7
Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin
F Bb F C7
Get six pretty maidens to sing me a song
F C7 F C7
Take me to the valley and lay the sod o'er me
F Bb C7 F
For I'm a young cowboy and know I've done wrong
F C7 F C7
Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
F Bb F C7
Play the Dead March as they carry me along
F C7 F C7
Put bunches of roses all over my coffin
F Bb C7 F
Roses to deaden the clods as they fall
F C7 F C7
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
F Bb F C7
As I walked out in Laredo one day
F C7 F C7
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
F Bb C7 F
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay
We also have 20 songs by Burl Ives
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- A Holly Jolly Christmas
- A Little Bitty Tear
- Aunt Rhody
- Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Buckeye Jim
- Cowboys Lament
- Down In The Valley
- Fooba Wooba John
- Frankie And Johnny
- Highland Laddie
- Hullabaloo Belay
- I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
- Lily Munroe
- Marianne
- Pearly Shells
- Peter Gray Blow Ye Winds
- The Whale
- Wayfaring Stranger
- Wee Cooper O Fife
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