Steer Rider Blues chords by Corb Lund

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: G

🎸 Intro:

G    Bb  G    Bb G    Bb x6
C Bb G


🎸 Verse 1:
G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
G
I got my name in the rodeo news
G
I can't explain it to the girls at school
G

But I think it's pretty damn cool
Bb                                      C Bb  G
I won a bunch of buckles by the time I turned fourteen
    Bb                                            C Bb   G
And still the pretty ladies don't want nothin' to do with me

G
Last weekend I showed 'em how
G
They had us on some Oreo cows    (he's refering to a Galloway cows)
G
I kicked her in the belly once
G
And she gave me a couple of good jumps
Bb                                               C  Bb G
She turned back both ways and they marked me a seventy-three
  Bb                                          C  Bb G
I hit the ground running and she came hookin' after me


🎸 Chorus:
C                   C Bb    G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
C                  C Bb G
But it's all gonna be ok
          C          C Bb   G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
          F                  G
I'm gonna ride me a bull someday


🎸 Bridge:
C Bb G


🎸 Verse 2:
G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
G
I bucked off at Mountain View
G
But I placed out in Picture Butte
G
And paid my high school rodeo dues
           Bb                                          Bb  C    G
And it's a good thing too 'cause I was getting pretty damn near broke
  Bb                                    Bb C   G
I saved all winter just to buy myself a decent rope

    G
I'm borrowin' my old man's spurs
G
My mom lost track of hers
G
They're out in the barn someplace
G
Since she give up on the barrel race       (his mom was a champion barrel racer)
             Bb                                             Bb  C  G
There's some Crocketts in the cellar and I think I'm gonna try 'em on
      Bb                                      Bb C  G
They fit a little big but I tied 'em with a leather thong


🎸 Chorus:
C                   C Bb    G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
C                  C  Bb G
But it's all gonna be ok
          C          C Bb   G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
          F                  G
I'm gonna ride me a bull someday


🎸 Chorus:
C                    C Bb   G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
C                  C  Bb G
But it's all gonna be ok
          C          C Bb   G
I got the boy steer rider's blues
          F                  G
I'm gonna ride me a bull someday



🎸 Outro:
G G Bb  G   G G  Bb Bb  C Bb G   G G  Bb x6
C - Bb  G