Chords with lyrics
BLACK COWBOYS
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G+G)
Rainey Williams playground was the Mott Haven streets
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C majorC) (G+G)
Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths
(C majorC) (G+G)
Names and photos of young black faces
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D MajorD) (G+G)
Whose death and blood consecrated these places
(G+G)
Raineys mother said Rainey stay at my side
(C majorC) (G+G)
For you are my blessing, you are my pride
(C majorC) (G+G)
Its your love here that keeps my soul alive
(D MajorD) (G+G)
I want you to come home from school and stay inside
(G+G)
Rainey'd do his work and put his books away
(C majorC) (G+G)
There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday
(C majorC) (G+G)
Lynette brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range
(D MajorD) (G+G)
The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains
(C majorC) (G+G)
Summer come and the days grew long
(C majorC) (G+G)
Rainey always had his mother's smile to depend on
(C majorC) (G+G)
Along the street of stray bullets he made his way
(C majorC) (G+G) (C majorC) (G+G)
To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day
(G+G)
Come the fall, the rain flooded these homes
(C majorC) (G+G)
Here in Ezekiel's valley of dry bones
(C majorC) (G+G)
It fell hard and dark to the ground
(D MajorD) (G+G)
It fell without a sound
(G+G)
Lynette took up with a man whose business was the boulevard
(C majorC) (G+G)
Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard
(C majorC) (G+G)
In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets he kept
(D MajorD) (G+G)
In the day, behind drawn curtains in Lynette's bedroom he slept
(C majorC) (G+G)
Then she got lost in the days
(C majorC) (G+G)
The smile Raney depended on dusted away
(C majorC) (G+G)
The arms that held him were no more his home
(D MajorD) (G+G) (C majorC)
He lay at night his head pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her
(G+G)
bones
(G+G)
In the kitchen Rainey slipped his hand between the pipes
(C majorC)
From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills
(G+G)
and stuck it in his coat side
(C majorC) (G+G)
Stood in the dark at his mother's bed
(D MajorD) (G+G)
Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes
(G+G)
In the twilight Rainey walked to the station on streets of stone
(C majorC) (G+G)
Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on
(C majorC) (G+G)
Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept
(D MajorD) (G+G)
As he lay his head back on the seat and slept
(G+G)
He awoke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green
(C majorC) (G+G)
Corn and cotton and endless nothin' in between
(C majorC) (G+G)
Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone
(D MajorD) (G+G)
The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone
Well thats the song the way i play it.
im pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really
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