Lights Of Cheyenne chords by James Mcmurtry

Chords with lyrics

OF THIS SONG ANYWHERE, SO THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH.

   CAPO on the second fret

   D4=   XX0233    G/f#=220033        LIGHTS OF CHEYENNE
   Cadd9=  X32033    G+G = 320033         JAMES MCMURTRY
   Em7=   022033

        VERSE 1

Cadd9Cadd9   G+G              Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
    Look off down the highway at the glittering lights
Cadd9Cadd9   G+G      E MajorE           Dsus4Dsus4
    Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight
        Cadd9Cadd9          Dsus4Dsus4     E minor 7Em7
    As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains
      G+G         Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4
    All bunched up like pearls on a string
          G+G              Cadd9Cadd9     G+G
    And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at all
Cadd9Cadd9    G+G     E minor 7Em7            Dsus4Dsus4
    And out on the horizon the broken stars fall
Cadd9Cadd9               Dsus4Dsus4      E minor 7Em7
    Old broken stars they fall down on the land
      G+G    Cadd9Cadd9       Dsus4Dsus4      G+G
    And get mixed together with the lights of Cheyenne

        VERSE 2

Cadd9Cadd9      G+G             Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
    Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my back
Cadd9Cadd9  G+G      E minor 7Em7          Dsus4Dsus4
    Workin' the counter to take up the slack
         Cadd9Cadd9           Dsus4Dsus4        E minor 7Em7
    Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low
      G+G       Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4
    You ain't worked a week since July
          G+G         Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
    You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first
Cadd9Cadd9     G+G       E minor 7Em7           Dsus4Dsus4
    But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
     Cadd9Cadd9            Dsus4Dsus4       E minor 7Em7
    You might get hired on But you won't make a hand
        G+G       Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4      G+G
    And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne

        CHORUS

         Dsus4Dsus4
       You stand in the sky
            Cadd9Cadd9    G+G
       with your feet on the ground
       Dsus4Dsus4         Cadd9Cadd9
       Never suspectin' a thing
            Dsus4Dsus4
       But if the sky were to
              Cadd9Cadd9  G+G
       move you might never be found
       E minor 7Em7   G/f#    Cadd9Cadd9
       Never be heard from again

          VERSE 3

Cadd9Cadd9   G+G              Cadd9Cadd9     G+G
    We go on good behavior when our youngest comes home
Cadd9Cadd9   G+G       E minor 7Em7             Dsus4Dsus4
    She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long
        Cadd9Cadd9            Dsus4Dsus4    E minor 7Em7
    And that oldest still fights me like she was 18
       G+G        Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4
    Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile ago
            G+G           Cadd9Cadd9    G+G
    And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sight
Cadd9Cadd9   G+G        E minor 7Em7          Dsus4Dsus4
    All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night
           Cadd9Cadd9        Dsus4Dsus4      E minor 7Em7
    And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan
    G+G     Cadd9Cadd9    Dsus4Dsus4      G+G
    Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne

         (little solo part goes here)

         VERSE 4

Cadd9Cadd9       G+G           Cadd9Cadd9     G+G
    And you've kept all that meanness inside you so long
Cadd9Cadd9    G+G      E minor 7Em7               Dsus4Dsus4
    You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong
        Cadd9Cadd9            Dsus4Dsus4       E minor 7Em7
    Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law
     G+G            Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4
    I look at your right, or I don't look at all
         G+G            Cadd9Cadd9   G+G
    Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake
Cadd9Cadd9  G+G     E minor 7Em7           Dsus4Dsus4
    Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break
      Cadd9Cadd9            Dsus4Dsus4      E minor 7Em7
    With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand
        G+G     Cadd9Cadd9    Dsus4Dsus4      G+G
    And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne

        - chorus-


         VERSE 5

Cadd9Cadd9       G+G          Cadd9Cadd9     G+G
    Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun
Cadd9Cadd9    G+G          E minor 7Em7      Dsus4Dsus4
    Come opening weekend you won't see a one
        Cadd9Cadd9           Dsus4Dsus4      E minor 7Em7
    They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know
        G+G           Cadd9Cadd9      Dsus4Dsus4
    But now they're up to the fence in the early dawn
        G+G          Cadd9Cadd9      G+G
    And it's warming up nicely for this time of year
Cadd9Cadd9   G+G        E minor 7Em7             Dsus4Dsus4
    The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear
       Cadd9Cadd9         Dsus4Dsus4      E minor 7Em7
    And I don't have it in me to make one more stand
        G+G     Cadd9Cadd9     Dsus4Dsus4      G+G
    Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne