The Coyote And The Cowboy chords by Colter Wall

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

🎸 Intro:

C C C C  F F/E D7 D7
C C C C  F F G7 G7
C C C C  F F/E D7 N.C. D7
C G C F  C G C C



🎸 Verse 1:
    C
The coyote's a survivor
F            F/E   D7
Reckon he's got to be
   C
He lives in the snow at forty below
      F             G7
Or in Malibu by the sea
C

I'm just an old cowpuncher
          F      F/E    D    N.C. D7
I love to listen to his tune

   C                         F
As I get high on a bottle of rye
    C           G            C     G
The coyote gets drunk on the moon
   C                         F
As I get high on a bottle of rye
    C           G            C     G
The coyote gets drunk on the moon

🎸 Verse 2:
    C
The cowboy's a conundrum
        F       F/E     D7
A contradiction in this age
   C
He says he's doing fine on the poverty line
       F                G7
With a workin' cowboy's wage
    C
The whiskey bottle costs thirty-two bucks
    F           F/E     D    N.C. D7
The big prairie moon is free

   C                        F
So who is a dumber son of a bitch
    C        G       C    G
The little coyote or me?
C                        F
Who is a dumber son of a bitch
    C        G       C    G
The little coyote or me?

🎸 Instrumental:
C C C C  F F/E D7 D7
C C C C  F F G G
C C C C  F F/E D7 N.C. D7
C C C F  C G C G

🎸 Verse 4:
        C
So with thoughts of reincarnation
        F              D7
Well, I drifted off to dream
C
Made it for a life with a coyote wife
  F                   G     G7
A bushy-tailed coyote queen
C
Way down in the valley
       F   F/E    D     N.C. D7
By the old jasper saloon

    C                              F
The cowboy got high on a bottle of rye
    C      G            C      G
And we got drunk on the moon
    C                              F
The cowboy got high on a bottle of rye
    C      G            C    G
And we got drunk on the moon

🎸 Verse 5:
    C
The coyote's a survivor
F            F/E   D7
Reckon he's got to be
   C
He lives in the snow at forty below
      F             G7
Or in Malibu by the sea
C
I'm just an old cowpuncher
          F      F/E    D    N.C. D7
I love to listen to his tune

   C                         F
As I get high on a bottle of rye
    C           G            C     G
The coyote gets drunk on the moon
   C                         F
As I get high on a bottle of rye
    C           G            C     G  C
The coyote gets drunk on the moon