Went For A Ride chords by Radney Foster

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
        D MajorD              G+G
He was black as the sky on a moonless night
D MajorD                A augmentedA
He was real good with the horses, never reined em too tight
D MajorD              G+G
He rode with the best, hell he rode with me
D MajorD                A augmentedA
and they got it all wrong in that book of history

Chorus:
G+G                  D MajorD
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A augmentedA                    D MajorD
It wasn't schoolboys and ladies it was cowtowns and sin
      G+G                D MajorD
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
             A augmentedA       D MajorD
we swore at the devil and went for a ride

Verse 2:
        D MajorD              G+G
We told some tales he told em best
D MajorD                A augmentedA
real-life can always use a good stretch
D MajorD              G+G
but that don't change the things we did
D MajorD                A augmentedA
cause the truest thing was the life that we lived

Chorus:
G+G                  D MajorD
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A augmentedA                    D MajorD
It wasn't schoolboys and Ladies it was cowtowns and sin
      G+G                D MajorD
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
             A augmentedA       D MajorD
we swore at the devil and went for a ride

Verse 3:
        D MajorD              G+G
More than one kind of pain more than one kind of theft
D MajorD                A augmentedA
and its bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept
D MajorD              G+G
She stole my heart age stole the fire
D MajorD                A augmentedA
they stole my prairie when they strung all that wire

Chorus:
G+G                  D MajorD
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A augmentedA                  D MajorD
It wasn't schoolboys and Ladies it was cowtowns and sin
G+G                  D MajorD
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
             A augmentedA       D MajorD
we swore at the devil and went for a ride
D MajorD            A augmentedA       D MajorD
Lord we, swore at the devil and a-went for a ride