The Cowboy Song 2 Chords

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The Cowboy Song 2 by Garth Brooks is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, G, A, A7, Bm and D7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			Subject: The Cowboy song by Garth Brooks 
 
 
D                             D                 G                 D 
Pushin' horns weren't easy like the movie said it was 
                            D                          A 
A7 
and I don't recall no dance hall girls or hotel rooms with rugs. 
                 D 
You worked hot and tired and nasty, 
              G                     D 
rode your pony's head too low. 
                                          A 
There were all the nights you couldn't sleep 
         G 
cause it was too damn cold; 
                       D              A                      D 
and you'd sing "Strawberry Roan and "Little Joe". 
D                                D                 G                 D 
Like the time we hit the river and the rain began to fall; 
                                   D                       A 
A7 
and the water was risin' so damn fast we thought it'd drown us all. 
      D                                           G                      D 
We lost a lot of steers that day and four or five good mounts. 
                                       A             G 
But when all the boys rode into camp we knew that's what counts; 
                    D               A                           D 
and we sang "Yippee Tiyiyay" amd "Amazing Grace"; 
         Bm                                               G               D 
or the night they broke behind us and then took us by surprise. 
                        D                       A               A7 
I whistled out to Bonner I seen the terror in his eyes. 
           D                   D7                            G 
D 
And he rode for all his horse would ride and I know he done his best. 
                             A                 G 
But he crossed over Jordan ridin' Dunny to his death. 
                    D                    A 
D 
And we sang "Bringing in the Sheaves" and "The Rugged Cross". 
D                              D                    G                   D 
So when you see the cowboy he's not ragged by his choice. 
                           D                                       A 
A7 
He never meant to bow those legs or put that gravel in his voice. 
             D                                                      G 
D 
He's just chasin' what he really loves and what's burnin' in his soul. 
                            A                       G 
Wishin' to God that he'd been born a hundred years ago. 
                  D             A                        D 
Still singin' "Strawberry Roan" and "Little Joe". 
 
 
 
This sounds right to me.  Enjoy!  [email protected] 
 
 
 

    	

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