Texas Trilogy - Bosque County Romance chords by Lyle Lovett

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
   C majorC      FF       G+G      C majorC
Mary Martin was a schoolgirl just seventeen or so
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When she married Billy Archer about fourteen years ago
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Not even out of high school folks said it wouldn't last
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But when you grow up in the country, you grow up mighty fast
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They married in a hurry in March when school was out
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Folks said that she was pregnant, "You just wait and you'll find out."
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It came about that winter, one gray November morn
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The first of many more to come, a baby boy was born

Chorus:
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And cattle is their game, and Archer is the name
  D MajorD              G+G
They give to the acres that they own
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If the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die
C majorC                A minorAm
Another year from Mary will have flown
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Another year from Mary will have flown

Verse 2:
C majorC          FF     G+G      C majorC
Now Billy kept what cattle his daddy could afford
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As he went bouncing across the cactus in a 1950 Ford
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But the cows were sick and skinny and the weeds was all that grew
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But Bill he kept the place alive the only thing he knew
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And Mary cooked the supper and Mary scrubbed the clothes
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And Mary busted horses and she blew the baby's nose
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And Mary and a shotgun kept the rattlesnakes away
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And how she kept on smiling no one could ever say

Chorus:
C majorC                      FF
And cattle is their game, and Archer is the name
  D MajorD              G+G
They give to the acres that they own
   FF         G+G     C majorC             FF
If the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die
C majorC                A minorAm
Another year from Mary will have flown
C majorC         G+G       C majorC
Another year from Mary will have flown

Verse 3:
C majorC          FF    G+G       C majorC
Now the drought of '57 was a curse upon the land
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No one in Bosque County could give ol' Bill a helping hand
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The ground was cracked and broken and the truck was out of gas
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And cows can't feed on prickly pear instead of growing grass
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Well the weather got the water and a snake bite took a child
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And a fire in the old barn took the hay that Bill had piled
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The mortgage got the money and the screw worm got the cows
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The years have come for Mary; she's waiting for them now

Chorus:
C majorC                      FF
And cattle is their game, and Archer is the name
  D MajorD              G+G
They give to the acres that they own
   FF         G+G     C majorC             FF
If the Brazos don't run dry and the newborn calves they don't die
C majorC                A minorAm
Another year from Mary will have flown
C majorC         G+G       C majorC
Another year from Mary will have flown