Cypress Hills And The Big Country chords by Colter Wall

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: C majorC

Colter is usually alternating the bass with the tumb.
So the picking pattern would be: Pick root, down, pick 5th, up, down, up

🎸 Intro:

C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC Cadd2/B A minorAm Am/GAm/G FF E minorEm DmDm G+G C majorC


🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC
You can see the bear paws
  G+G
The old man on his back
Prickly pears, a blue moon
    A minorAm
In the short and native grass
     C majorC   Cadd2/B  A minorAm
There's a bunch of empty beer cans
Am/GAm/G  FF    E minorEm    DmDm
In an old, loose mineral sack
 G+G                 C majorC
Give you some idea of where you're at

🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC           G+G
Buck brush and sage as far as you can see

It's the south slopes of the hills
     A minorAm
Turns to pine and poplar trees
C majorC  Cadd2/B  A minorAm Am/GAm/G  FF  E minorEm  DmDm
Cattle all grazing up and down a big coulee
G+G
Under Charley Russel skies
            C majorC
Like a blue and purple sea

🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
Cypress Hills
    G+G
And the big country below
       A minorAm
Where life is still
   G+G      G7G7
And a man can be alone
    C majorC  Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
 A minorAm   Am/GAm/G    FF    E minorEm   DmDm
All your trials and troubles for a time
    G+G              C majorC
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

🎸 Solo:
C majorC G+G A minorAm C majorC Cadd2/B A minorAm Am/GAm/G FF E minorEm DmDm G+G C majorC
C G+G A minorAm C majorC Cadd2/B A minorAm Am/GAm/G FF E minorEm DmDm G+G C majorC

🎸 Chorus:
     A minorAm
Cypress Hills
    G+G
And the big country below
       A minorAm
Where life is still
   G+G      G7G7
And a man can be alone
    C majorC  Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
 A minorAm   Am/GAm/G    FF    E minorEm   DmDm
All your trials and troubles for a time
    G+G              C majorC
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

🎸 Post-Chorus:
   C majorC     Cadd2/B  A minorAm  Am/GAm/G
You can sweat and cuss and wonder why
   FF    E minorEm    DmDm
They say our west has died
    G+G
When the folks around the Cypress Hills
            C majorC
Still drag calves to the fire

🎸 Outro:
C majorC Cadd2/B A minorAm Am/GAm/G FF E minorEm DmDm G+G C majorC