Willie chords by Robert Earl Keen

• Capo on 3rd

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
  D  Em  G - A  D  D

Verse:
  D                             Em
Hanging on a wall just like a thousand times you been there
    G            A              D
A picture of a field of dandelions
   D
And a young stud colt a-following
          Em
Some old cowboy on a broom mare
   G                A              D
a-bound to make it home by dinner time
   D
There's a thunderhead a-coming
         Em
From the west and he's sure thinking
     G                  A               D
The rain would do this dusty dirt some good
        D                             Em
But it ain't a cowboys weather so he nudges his old faithful
     G               A               D
And turns around to call out to the stud

Chorus:
 D       Em                D
Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
     G               A                  D
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
 D       Em          D
Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder
      G               A              D
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain

Verse 2:
     D
It ain't nothing much to look at
        Em
Just a print I got from grandma
   G               A             D
A real west river cowgirl in her day
     D
And sometimes I need religion
          Em
Since the old girl's gone before me
      G                A               D
And that's when I can hear the cowboy say

Chorus:
 D       Em                D
Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
     G               A                  D
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
 D       Em          D
Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder
      G               A              D
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain

Verse 3:
 D                             Em
Now the western feelin' has become another sideshow
   G              A                D
a-selling out the bygone days gone by
        D
And we never know it's raining
         Em
We can't hear it for our thunder
          G              A               D
We can't see it for our clouds up in the sky

Chorus:
 D       Em                D
Come on Willie, there's a black cloud coming yonder
     G               A                  D
The devil beats his wife with a silver chain
 D       Em          D
Come on Willie, boy can't you hear the thunder
      G               A              D
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain
      G               A              D
Your ma and me don't travel well in rain