Waylon Jennings - My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys guitar chord

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I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy

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Lovin' the cowboy ways

Pursuin' the life of my high-ridin' heroes

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I burned up my childhood days

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I learned all the rules of the modern-day drifter

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Don't you hold onto nothin' too long

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Just take what you need from the ladies

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Then leave them the words of a sad country song

CHORUS:

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My heroes have always been cowboys

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And they still are, it seems

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Sadly in search of, but one step in back of

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Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams

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Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery

From bein' alone too long

You could die from the cold in the arms of a nightmare

Knowin' well your best days are gone

Pickin' up hookers instead of my pen

I let the words of my years fade away

Old worn-out saddles, old worn-out memories

With no one and no place to stay

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