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            COWBOY BILL - Garth Brooks

Words and Music by:
Larry B. Bastian and Ed Berghoff


[Verse 1]
   C                            F    C
He told a good story and all us kids listened
                 F    C                         G
'Bout his life on the border and the way it was then
    C                            F     C
And we all believed, and when he would finish
             F   C         G       C
We'd ask the old cowboy to tell em again
G/B       Am                C                      G/B
You could almost hear those prairie winds blowin'
    Am                           C         Gsus       G
His saddle a creakin' 'neath his old faded jeans
          C                                    F   C
You could taste the dry dust from the trail he was ridin'
                F      C             G          C
As he sat there and he painted those west Texas scenes


[Chorus]

Dm  C/E     F

    And the grown ups would tell us
        C
    You boys keep your distance,
         D7                            G
    that old man's just tellin' you lies
           C
    But to all us kids
                    F C
    Cowboy Bill was a hero
                        G          C
    Just as true as his blue Texas skies


[Verse 2]

  C                                 F    C
He told of a time when he rode with the Rangers
        F    C                     G
Down on the Pecos and he saved the day
            C                           F  C
Outnumbered by plenty, they were almost to cover,
            F   C    G            C
With thirty banditos headed their way
G/B       Am           C                   G/B
He looked back just in time to see a horse stumble,
    Am                    C         Gsus       G
The captain went down and bill pulled up on his reins
    C                                      F   C
And through a flurry of bullets he rescued the captain,
     F          C               G       C
They rode for a sunset, just the story remains


[Chorus]

Dm  C/E     F
    And the grown ups would tell us
        C
    You boys keep your distance,
         D7                            G
    that old man's just tellin' you lies
           C
    But to all us kids
                    F C
    Cowboy Bill was a hero
                        G          C
    Just as true as his blue Texas skies


[Verse 3]

      C                             F    C
Well, I still remember the day that it happened
       F    C                    G
We waited and waited, but Bill never showed
          C                           F  C
And the folks at the feedstore said they hadn't seen him
      F           C    G            C
So we set out for his place down Old Grist Mill Road
G/B    Am             C                             G/B
And we cried when we found him lying there with his memories
    Am                    C     Gsus       G
The old trunk wide open things scattered about
           C                           F     C
And he was clutching a badge that said Texas Ranger,
    F             C            G       C
And an old yeller letter said "Texas is Proud"


[Chorus]

Dm  C/E     F
   And the grown ups that told us
        C
    You boys keep your distance,
         D7                            G
    that old man's just tellin' you lies
           C
   Well now they're all sayin'
                    F C
    Cowboy Bill was a hero
                        G          C
    Just as true as his blue Texas skies
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