Bald Butte chords by Colter Wall

Chorus:

  C                                    C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high

   F
Carry me to Bald Butte

                                 C
Where the plains wrap round the sky

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

Verse 1:

  C
Henry was born on Bald Butte

                      C7
A paint horse he did ride

  F
Well he roped him in Alberta

                          C
Broke him on the Montana line

  G                                            C
Tore him a trail through the northwest countryside

Verse 2:

  C
Henry took to stealing

                   C7
Robbing on the CP Rail

 F
He got the devil on his shoulders

                         C
And the law man on his tail

             G
You better ride, Henry ride

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

Verse 3:

  C
Well he rode across the Grey Back camp

                C7
Up in Cypress Hills

  F
They said they left the US nation

                          C
On the day that Richmond fell

  G                                    C
They whistled Dixie and set him up a still

Verse 4:

  C
Henry woke the next morn

                         C7
Like a corpse from the grave

  F
Half blind and twice as haggard

                             C
He took a cast iron to the brain

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

Verse 5:

  C
And he tracked them former Johnny Rebs

                              C7
Through the prairie and the trees

 F
Up old Castle Mountain

                    C
Cross the river Wapiti

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

I see my paint

           F                    C
I see my rifle that shares my name

            G
I see them men that done me wrong

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

Verse 6:

  C
Henry grabbed his rifle

               C7
Up off of the ground

               F
He kissed the ever-loving barrel

                           C
And he shot them old boys down

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

Verse 7:

  C
Now he's back up in the saddle

               C7
Back up on the top

         F
When he felt that southern slug

                               C
Chew a hole right through his gut

    G
He thought he killed them all

            C
But he had not

Verse 9:

  C
That paint took off a running

                          C7
Through the water and the mud

    F
No earthly force in this whole world

                        C
Could stop that 'Berta stud

  G                              C
Henry sat there laughing up his blood


 C
And he was singing

Chorus:

C                                        C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high

  F
Carry me to Bald Butte

                                     C
Where the plains wrap round the the sky

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