Hank Snow - I Traded My Saddle For A Rifle guitar chord

I Traded My Saddle For a Rifle - Recorded by Hank Snow

Album: The Yodeling Ranger

Interpreted by Gary Willett (16Mar 2006) Gmwns@aol.com

Intro Guitar strums (C)(G)(C)

(C) I traded my saddle for a (F) rifle, and (C) left to join that troubled (G) shore

I (C) hung my guitar in the (F)attic, and (C) laid a-(G)-way my forty (C) four

I told the old folks I must (F) leave them, I (C) bid them all a fond fare-(G)-well

I (C) left my faithful pony (F) grazing, in (C) clover (G) by the old cor-(C)-ral

Chorus

I (F) traded my saddle for a (C) rifle

So kiss me darling we must (G) part

But (C) when we've won this final (F) victory

I'll (C) trade my (G) rifle for your (C) heart

Instrumental – on recording it sounds like a Hawaiian slide guitar

(C)/// (F)/// (C)// / / (G)/ /

(C)// / (F)/// (C)/// (G)// (C)/

I told my mother not to (F) worry, I (C) said that I'd return some-(G)-day

I (C) bent and kissed her wrinkled (F) forehead, then (C) turned and (G) sadly walked a-(C)-way

The stars are growing dim my (F) darling, they (C) say my ship will sail at (G) dawn

So (C) whisper softly that you (F) love me, just (C) two more (G) hours and I'll be (C) gone

Repeat Chorus

Instrumental – Same as instrumental above

Repeat Chorus

Yodel to end song – (C) oh di lidy oh (G) di lidy oh di di di (C) lidy