Original Artist - My Best Friend guitar chord

My Best Friend

Capo 2

Intro: G Am C G (play twice)

Chorus:

G Am C G

There’s a high lonesome valley in the hills of New Mexico

G Am C G

Surrounded by lava beds where the San Juan River flows

D C G C

Underneath a giant blackjack oak with green grass all around,

(C) G D G

Lies the body of my best friend buried beneath the ground

Verses:

G Am C G

We made a perfect team gathering strays or catching cows

(G) Am C G

Oh how I love him, and I wish he could be here now

D C G C

His name was Stony James; I can feel his spirit in the wind

(C) G D G

There can never be a replacement for my best friend

G Am C G

One day we were checkin’ cattle just movin’ nice and slow

G Am C G

When a lightning bolt from a thunderhead set the range a glow

D C G C

Our only chance was the river still twelve miles away

(C) G D G

I can still smell the sage burning on that dreadful day

G Am C G

We made it across the river with no time to spare

G Am C G

Poor Stony he was shakin’ and gasping for air

D C G C

So I pulled my saddle from his back I knew without a doubt

(C) G D G

The big bay horse had run too far and his lungs had just give out

D C G C

I sat and cried for hours asking God how can it be

(C) G D G

I had such a good friend; Stony gave his life for me

Repeat Chorus

Outro: D C G C C G D G