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