Ol Cowpoke chords by Riders In The Sky

Verse 1:

    D          D7      G            Gm
I’m an old cowpoke I don’t use no soap I swing some rope and eats antelope

  D        Bm     Em  A7
No Sunday thunder’s got me buffalo

   D       D7         G        Gm
Devastation rides upon my breath and I scare the ladies plum to death

    D         Bm      Em     A7  D
When I rares back in the saddle and I  lets the yodel go

Chorus:

D      G      D   Em A D
(yodeling)

Verse 2:

   D         D7       G         Gm
Well spin my spurs and kink my rope I soaked up too much campfire smoke

D      Bm          Em  A7
  This old cowpoke’s headin’ for town

    D        D7         G        Gm
Yeah, I just got paid my sitch is grave this ain’t no social call it’s a raid

    D          Bm     Bm6     Em   A    D
I’m an old lone wolf with a barbed wire tail   And it’s my night to howl

Chorus:

D      G      D   Em A D
(yodeling)

Bridge:

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

  E          E7         A7
But I don’t care if it’s Heaven or Hell   I’m gonna have me some fun

Verse 3:

D            D7         G         Gm
Barkeep you call that a double (yeah) well make mine a double double (alright)

     D         Bm       Em  A7
Stronger whiskey and weaker women’s what I say

     D            D7         G         Gm
Yeah I’ll sit here and drink ‘til I get full and then try and stop this rodeo bull

      D            Bm        Em     A    D
There be a whole lotta me that’s a bluffin’ man and whole lotta me that ain’t

Chorus:

D      G      D   Em A D
(yodeling)

Verse 4:

     D          D7            G         Gm
Weeeeell bustin’ bottles and flying lead they broke a porch of furniture over my head

   D          Bm        Em       A7
I had quite the time last night  is what I hear (sure did Slim)

       D           D7             Bm6
But when the morning comes and the sun’s getting brighter I’m snaking across the prairie like a spider

      D            Bm            Em     A    D
I hope the sheriff ain’t taking the trail that I’m making  back to wherever it is

chorus:

D      G      D   Em A D
(yodeling)

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