Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
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🎸 Verse:
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Old Mike Hernandez was a buena vaquero
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Rode some good horses Californio style
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Watched him for hours and he showed me a little
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Of the old California he knew for awhile
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Started young horses in Bosal y Fiador
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Unto the two rein the old Spanish spade
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Brought them along with two hands that were gentle
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Some fine reining horses as ever were made
🎸 Chorus 1:
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And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
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He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
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And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
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Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
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Round and round, spinnin' and round
🎸 Verse 2:
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Had them big spurs that came from Chihuahua
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They never had ever raked hide nor hair
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They had a nice jingle and when he rode by
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They made pertty music that danced on the air
🎸 Verse 3:
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Lived in a shack with his wife named Juanita
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She cooked on a wood stove tortillas and beans
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After we'd eaten he said come I show
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What the word handle on a good cowhorse means
🎸 Chorus 2:
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And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
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He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
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And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
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Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
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Round and round, spinnin' and round
🎸 Verse 4:
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He never did shout, he never did whisper
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He had his own lingo that they understood
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The touch of a knee or the lift of a rein
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His horses all gave him the best that they could
🎸 Verse 5:
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In an old shed out behind his adobie
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I helped him to hang up his bridles and gear
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That's where I discovered an old tarp that covered
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Three trophy saddles won back many years
🎸 Chorus 3:
D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
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He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
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Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
🎸 Chorus 4:
D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE A augmentedA
And he'd spin that pony hanging onto the reata
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He hung from a rafter in the Willow Creek barn
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And I watched and I wondered man how could he do that
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Then he'd change direction and spin him some more
🎸 Outro:
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Round and round, spinnin' and round
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Round and round, spinnin' and round