Ed Bruce - The Last Cowboy Song guitar chord

The Last Cowboy Song

By Ed Bruce

Words & Music by Ed Bruce & Ron Peterson

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

6/19/2005

Chorus:

D

This is the last cowboy song

D G

The end of a hundred-year waltz

A

The voices are sad as they're singing along

A D

Another piece of America's lost

D

He rides the feedlot and clerks in a market

D A

On weekends selling tobacco and beer

A

His dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences

A D

But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here

He blazed a trail with Lewis and Clark

And eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed down

He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas

And rode with the 7th when Custer went down

Chorus

Remington showed us how he looked on canvas

And Louis Lamour has told us his tale

Waylon and Willie and me sing about him

And wish to God we could have ridden his trail

(Verse spoken over chorus)

The old Chisolm trail is covered in concrete now

They drive 'em to market in fifty foot rigs

They roll by his marker not slowin' to read it

Like livin' and dyin' was all that he did