Van Zandt Townes - Indian Cowboy guitar chord

Indian Cowboy (Joe Ely)

as performed by Townes van Zandt

        C      G7          C

If you ever go out to the circus

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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire

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I'll tell you a tale to remember

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When the white horses leap rings of fire

It was a cold night in old Oklahoma

And the show was about to begin

The animals they was all restless

When the star-horse broke from her pen

Well, she was a mare of high spirits

Like a whore on a Saturday night

Just a-kickin' and a-buckin' while the men were a-brushin'

The elephants lined on the side

Now close to the tent sat a lantern

It was dangerously close to the hay

That mare headed straight for that lantern

Some fool had left by mistake

Then up jumps an Indian Cowboy

And his lasso he throws through the air

Smack-dab in the middle of danger

He ropes the runaway mare

And the elephants raised up their trumpets

And one of them broke from her chains

Stampeded that Indian Cowboy

Who just saved the big-top from flames

So if you ever go out to the circus

Where the Wallendas walk on the wire

Remember that Indian Cowboy

The ring of fire