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The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs - When A Cowboy Trades His Spurs For Wings by Soundtracks 🎦

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: C

Difficulty: Novice


Verse 1:
 C
Let me tell you buddy, there’s a faster gun,
                         D7         G7
comin’ over yonder, when tomorrow comes.
 C                                      F
Let me tell you buddy, and it won’t be long,
         C                            G          C
’til you find yourself singing your last cowboy song.


Chorus:
        G                   F        C
Yippee ki-yi-yay, when the round-up ends.
        G                   F        G
Yippee ki-yi-yay, and the camp fire dims.
        C                          F
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
        C                G         C
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.

Verse 2:
 C
When they wrap my body in the binden(?) sheet,
                             D7                  G7
and they take my six-irons, pull the boots from my feet,
 C                                        F
Unsaddle my pony, she’ll be itching to roll,
        C                           G             C
I’ll be halfway to heaven, under horsepower of my own.


Chorus:
        G                   F        C
Yippee ki-yi-yay, when the round-up ends.
        G                   F        G
Yippee ki-yi-yay, and the camp fire dims.
        C                          F
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
        C                G         C
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.


Chorus:
       G            F     C
Yippee ki-yi-yay, (I’m glory bound).
       G               F              G
No more jingle jangle (I’ll lay my guns down)
       C                           F
Yippee ki-yi-yay, he shouts and he sings,
       C                 G         C
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings.