Bald Butte chords by Colter Wall

Chords with lyrics

Chorus:

 C majorC                  C7C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high

  FF
Carry me to Bald Butte

                 C majorC
Where the plains wrap round the sky

     G+G                C majorC
You can dig a hole on Bald Butte when I die

Verse 1:

 C majorC
Henry was born on Bald Butte

           C7C7
A augmentedA paint horse he did ride

 FF
Well he roped him in Alberta

             C majorC
Broke him on the Montana line

 G+G                      C majorC
Tore him a trail through the northwest countryside

Verse 2:

 C majorC
Henry took to stealing

          C7C7
Robbing on the CP Rail

 FF
He got the devil on his shoulders

             C majorC
And the law man on his tail

       G+G
You better ride, Henry ride

                   C majorC
You ain't got no friends to go your bail

Verse 3:

 C majorC
Well he rode across the Grey Back camp

        C7C7
Up in Cypress Hills

 FF
They said they left the US nation

             C majorC
On the day that Richmond fell

 G+G                  C majorC
They whistled Dixie and set him up a still

Verse 4:

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Henry woke the next morn

             C7C7
Like a corpse from the grave

 FF
Half blind and twice as haggard

               C majorC
He took a cast iron to the brain

    G+G                      C majorC
They stole his horse and the rifle that shared his name

Verse 5:

 C majorC
And he tracked them former Johnny Rebs

               C7C7
Through the prairie and the trees

 FF
Up old Castle Mountain

          C majorC
Cross the river Wapiti

 G+G                   C majorC
Low and behold, what do you think he sees

I see my paint

      FF          C majorC
I see my rifle that shares my name

      G+G
I see them men that done me wrong

                 C majorC
Lord, I'm gonna do them just the same

Verse 6:

 C majorC
Henry grabbed his rifle

        C7C7
Up off of the ground

        FF
He kissed the ever-loving barrel

              C majorC
And he shot them old boys down

   G+G                C majorC
They hit the dirt, he revelled in the soumd

Verse 7:

 C majorC
Now he's back up in the saddle

        C7C7
Back up on the top

     FF
When he felt that southern slug

                C majorC
Chew a hole right through his gut

  G+G
He thought he killed them all

      C majorC
But he had not

Verse 9:

 C majorC
That paint took off a running

             C7C7
Through the water and the mud

  FF
No earthly force in this whole world

            C majorC
Could stop that 'Berta stud

 G+G               C majorC
Henry sat there laughing up his blood


 C majorC
And he was singing

Chorus:

C majorC                    C7C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high

 FF
Carry me to Bald Butte

                   C majorC
Where the plains wrap round the the sky

     G+G                C majorC
You can dig a hole on Bald Butte when I die

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