Ol Cowpoke chords by Riders In The Sky

Chords with lyrics

Verse 1:

    D MajorD          D7D7      G+G            G minorGm
I’m an old cowpoke I don’t use no soap I swing some rope and eats antelope

  D MajorD        B minorBm     E minorEm  A7A7
No Sunday thunder’s got me buffalo

   D MajorD       D7D7         G+G        G minorGm
Devastation rides upon my breath and I scare the ladies plum to death

    D MajorD         B minorBm      E minorEm     A7A7  D MajorD
When I rares back in the saddle and I  lets the yodel go

Chorus:

D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD   E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
(yodeling)

Verse 2:

   D MajorD         D7D7       G+G         G minorGm
Well spin my spurs and kink my rope I soaked up too much campfire smoke

D MajorD      B minorBm          E minorEm  A7A7
  This old cowpoke’s headin’ for town

    D MajorD        D7D7         G+G        G minorGm
Yeah, I just got paid my sitch is grave this ain’t no social call it’s a raid

    D MajorD          B minorBm     Bm6Bm6     E minorEm   A augmentedA    D MajorD
I’m an old lone wolf with a barbed wire tail   And it’s my night to howl

Chorus:

D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD   E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
(yodeling)

Bridge:

  F# minorF#m         B minorBm        F# minorF#m        B minorBm
Now some folks say that life is swell   some complain it’s troublesome

  E MajorE          E7E7         A7A7
But I don’t care if it’s Heaven or Hell   I’m gonna have me some fun

Verse 3:

D MajorD            D7D7         G+G         G minorGm
Barkeep you call that a double (yeah) well make mine a double double (alright)

     D MajorD         B minorBm       E minorEm  A7A7
Stronger whiskey and weaker women’s what I say

     D MajorD            D7D7         G+G         G minorGm
Yeah I’ll sit here and drink ‘til I get full and then try and stop this rodeo bull

      D MajorD            B minorBm        E minorEm     A augmentedA    D MajorD
There be a whole lotta me that’s a bluffin’ man and whole lotta me that ain’t

Chorus:

D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD   E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
(yodeling)

Verse 4:

     D MajorD          D7D7            G+G         G minorGm
Weeeeell bustin’ bottles and flying lead they broke a porch of furniture over my head

   D MajorD          B minorBm        E minorEm       A7A7
I had quite the time last night  is what I hear (sure did Slim)

       D MajorD           D7D7             Bm6Bm6
But when the morning comes and the sun’s getting brighter I’m snaking across the prairie like a spider

      D MajorD            B minorBm            E minorEm     A augmentedA    D MajorD
I hope the sheriff ain’t taking the trail that I’m making  back to wherever it is

chorus:

D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD   E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD
(yodeling)

D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD   G+G  A augmentedA D MajorD
(yodeling)               he’s an old cowpoke