Cypress Hills And The Big Country chords by Colter Wall

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

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 G Am  C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C



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

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

It's the south slopes of the hills
         Am
Turns to pine and poplar trees
C   Cadd2/B   Am  Am/G    F    Em    Dm
Cattle all grazing up and down a big coulee
G
Under Charley Russel skies
                       C
Like a blue and purple sea

🎸 Chorus:
         Am
Cypress Hills
        G
And the big country below
              Am
Where life is still
     G           G7
And a man can be alone
        C   Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
 Am      Am/G       F       Em     Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time
       G                           C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

🎸 Solo:
C G Am  C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C
C G Am  C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C

🎸 Chorus:
         Am
Cypress Hills
        G
And the big country below
              Am
Where life is still
     G           G7
And a man can be alone
        C   Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
 Am      Am/G       F       Em     Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time
       G                           C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

🎸 Post-Chorus:
      C         Cadd2/B    Am    Am/G
You can sweat and cuss and wonder why
     F       Em       Dm
They say our west has died
        G
When the folks around the Cypress Hills
                        C
Still drag calves to the fire

🎸 Outro:
C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C