Cowboy Singer chords by Lucy Kaplansky

Lucy Kaplansky - Cowboy Singer


CAPO: 3rd Fret



INTRO: C G C

           F      C
Seventeen years she's been in this world
               G
Wide-eyed and wistful, pretty little Mormon girl
  C               F       C
She don't know I'm wicked, and she don't know I'm old
                G     C
Sweet Jesus forgive me, but she gets in my soul

   F              G   C
She believes in the future and the family tree
    F        C        D      G
And she thinks there's a little spark of good left in me
    C              F      C
And she comes to my door, 'cause she thinks I can bring her
            G   C
The glamorous life of a cowboy singer


             F      C
I rise from my bed to her hand at the bell
               G
I look like the devil and I'm feeling like hell
    C               F       C
But she don't seem to notice, she just steps right inside
               G      C
For to sing me the song, she made up last night


    F             G      C
And her voice is shining with the moon and the stars
    F     C        D     G
And she plays so unspoiled on that two-bit guitar
     C             F      C
Singing, "Love" and "Tomorrow" and "Thank The Redeemer"
               G   C      G C
And I doom and anoint her a 'Cowboy Singer'


             F     C
Alone in my room when she leaves me again
               G
I stare at the wall and feel death closing in
   C            F      C
But I like to imagine, I will meet her one day
               G7      C
In a land at the end of this lonesome highway


   F              G       C
In a fine high country, where the best songs are sung
    F      C       D       G
And the labels don't care if you're old or you're young
    C              F      C
And the Martins are cheaper, and the pastures are greener
             G   C
And all of the angels are cowboy singers
             G      C