Wolf Creek Pass Chords by C.W. Mccall
Tempo:
128.9 bpm
Chords used:
C
Bb
Eb
G
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[G] [F] [G]
[D] [C] [Bb] [C]
Me and Earl was hauling chickens on the flatbed out of Wiggins, and we'd [Eb] spent all night on the uphill side of 37 miles of hell called [C] Wolf Creek Pass, which is up on the Great Divide.
We was sitting there sucking toothpicks and drinking knee-highs and [Cm] onion soup mix, and I says, Earl, let's [Eb] mail a card to Mother and send them chickens on [C] down to the other side.
Yeah, let's give them a ride.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, [G] truckin' on down.
[Cm] [Bb] [C]
Well, Earl put down his bottle and ashes flipped down on the throttle, and then [Eb] a couple of boogies with a thousand cubes and a 1948 [C] Peterbilt screamed alive.
He woke up the chickens.
[G] [C] We roared up off of that shoulder, spraying pine cones, rocks, and [Cm] boulders, and [Eb] put 400 head of them Rhode Island Reds and a couple of burnt-out [C] Roosters on the line.
Look out below, cause here we go.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, truckin' [G] on down [Cm] to the other side.
[C] Well, we commenced truckin', and them hens commenced the cluckin', and [Eb] Earl took out a match, scratched his pants, and lit up the [Cm] unused half of a dollar cigar [C] and took a puff.
Says, my, ain't this pretty up [G] here.
[C] I says, Earl, this hill can spill us.
You better slow down or you gonna kill us.
[Eb] Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates for them 85 crazy [C] USDA-approved cluckers.
You wanna hit second.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, [C] way up on the Great [G] Divide, on [Gm] the other side.
[Bb] [C]
Well, Earl grabbed on the shifter and he stabbed her into fifth gear, and [Eb] then the chromium-plated, fully-illuminated, genuine accessory shift [C] knob come right off in his hand.
I says, you wanna screw that [Bm] thing back on, Earl?
[C] He was trying to thread it on there when the fire fell off of his [Eb] cigar and dropped on down, started to roll around, and then lit in the cup Earl's pants and [C] burned a hole in his sock.
Yeah, sorta set him right on fire.
[F] I looked on out of the window and [C] I started counting phone poles, [Bb] going by at the rate of four to [C] the seventh power.
Well, [F] I put two and two together and added [C] twelve and carried five, [G] come up with 22,000 telephone [C] poles an hour.
I looked at Earl and his eyes was wide, his lips was curled, and his legs was fried.
[Bb] His hand was froze to the wheel like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a [C] blizzard.
I says, Earl, I'm not the type to complain, but the time has come [Bb] for me to explain that if you don't apply some brake real soon, they're [C] gonna have to pick us up with a stick and a spoon.
Well, Earl reared [Bb] back, cocked his legs, stepped down as hard as he could on the [C] brake, the pedal went clear to the floor and stayed right there on the [Bb] floor.
He said, it's sorta like stepping on a plum.
[C] Well, from there on down, it just wasn't real pretty.
It was Harepin [Bb] County and Switchback City.
One of them looked like a can full of worms, [C] another one looked like malaria germs.
[Gm] Right in the middle of the whole damn [C] show was a real nice tunnel, now [Gm] wouldn't you know.
[C] Sign says, clearance to the [Bb] 12-foot line, but the chickens was [Ab] stacked to 13-9.
Well, we [Gb] shot that tunnel in 110 [C] like gas through a funnel and eggs through a [Bb] head.
And we took that top row of chickens [Ab] off and let her scum off of Louisiana [Gb] Swamp.
Went down and [C] around and around and down, we run out of [Bb] ground at the edge of town, [Ab] bashed into the side of Feed Store [Gb] [Ab] in downtown Pagosa Springs.
[Eb]
[Ab] [F]
Wolf Link passed way [Cm] up on the great deep side, [Bb] truckin' on down the [C] other side.
[F] Wolf Link passed way up [C] on the great deep side, truckin' on [G] down the [C] other [Ab] side.
[Eb] [Bb] [F]
[D] [C] [Bb] [C]
Me and Earl was hauling chickens on the flatbed out of Wiggins, and we'd [Eb] spent all night on the uphill side of 37 miles of hell called [C] Wolf Creek Pass, which is up on the Great Divide.
We was sitting there sucking toothpicks and drinking knee-highs and [Cm] onion soup mix, and I says, Earl, let's [Eb] mail a card to Mother and send them chickens on [C] down to the other side.
Yeah, let's give them a ride.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, [G] truckin' on down.
[Cm] [Bb] [C]
Well, Earl put down his bottle and ashes flipped down on the throttle, and then [Eb] a couple of boogies with a thousand cubes and a 1948 [C] Peterbilt screamed alive.
He woke up the chickens.
[G] [C] We roared up off of that shoulder, spraying pine cones, rocks, and [Cm] boulders, and [Eb] put 400 head of them Rhode Island Reds and a couple of burnt-out [C] Roosters on the line.
Look out below, cause here we go.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, truckin' [G] on down [Cm] to the other side.
[C] Well, we commenced truckin', and them hens commenced the cluckin', and [Eb] Earl took out a match, scratched his pants, and lit up the [Cm] unused half of a dollar cigar [C] and took a puff.
Says, my, ain't this pretty up [G] here.
[C] I says, Earl, this hill can spill us.
You better slow down or you gonna kill us.
[Eb] Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates for them 85 crazy [C] USDA-approved cluckers.
You wanna hit second.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, [C] way up on the Great [G] Divide, on [Gm] the other side.
[Bb] [C]
Well, Earl grabbed on the shifter and he stabbed her into fifth gear, and [Eb] then the chromium-plated, fully-illuminated, genuine accessory shift [C] knob come right off in his hand.
I says, you wanna screw that [Bm] thing back on, Earl?
[C] He was trying to thread it on there when the fire fell off of his [Eb] cigar and dropped on down, started to roll around, and then lit in the cup Earl's pants and [C] burned a hole in his sock.
Yeah, sorta set him right on fire.
[F] I looked on out of the window and [C] I started counting phone poles, [Bb] going by at the rate of four to [C] the seventh power.
Well, [F] I put two and two together and added [C] twelve and carried five, [G] come up with 22,000 telephone [C] poles an hour.
I looked at Earl and his eyes was wide, his lips was curled, and his legs was fried.
[Bb] His hand was froze to the wheel like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a [C] blizzard.
I says, Earl, I'm not the type to complain, but the time has come [Bb] for me to explain that if you don't apply some brake real soon, they're [C] gonna have to pick us up with a stick and a spoon.
Well, Earl reared [Bb] back, cocked his legs, stepped down as hard as he could on the [C] brake, the pedal went clear to the floor and stayed right there on the [Bb] floor.
He said, it's sorta like stepping on a plum.
[C] Well, from there on down, it just wasn't real pretty.
It was Harepin [Bb] County and Switchback City.
One of them looked like a can full of worms, [C] another one looked like malaria germs.
[Gm] Right in the middle of the whole damn [C] show was a real nice tunnel, now [Gm] wouldn't you know.
[C] Sign says, clearance to the [Bb] 12-foot line, but the chickens was [Ab] stacked to 13-9.
Well, we [Gb] shot that tunnel in 110 [C] like gas through a funnel and eggs through a [Bb] head.
And we took that top row of chickens [Ab] off and let her scum off of Louisiana [Gb] Swamp.
Went down and [C] around and around and down, we run out of [Bb] ground at the edge of town, [Ab] bashed into the side of Feed Store [Gb] [Ab] in downtown Pagosa Springs.
[Eb]
[Ab] [F]
Wolf Link passed way [Cm] up on the great deep side, [Bb] truckin' on down the [C] other side.
[F] Wolf Link passed way up [C] on the great deep side, truckin' on [G] down the [C] other [Ab] side.
[Eb] [Bb] [F]
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_ [D] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _
_ _ Me and Earl was hauling chickens on the flatbed out of Wiggins, and we'd [Eb] spent all night on the uphill side of 37 miles of hell called [C] Wolf Creek Pass, which is up on the Great Divide.
We was sitting there sucking toothpicks and drinking knee-highs and [Cm] onion soup mix, and I says, Earl, let's [Eb] mail a card to Mother and send them chickens on [C] down to the other side.
Yeah, let's give them a ride.
_ _ [F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, [G] truckin' on down.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ Well, Earl put down his bottle and ashes flipped down on the throttle, and then [Eb] a couple of boogies with a thousand cubes and a 1948 [C] Peterbilt screamed alive.
He woke up the chickens.
_ [G] [C] We roared up off of that shoulder, spraying pine cones, rocks, and [Cm] boulders, and [Eb] put 400 head of them Rhode Island Reds and a couple of burnt-out [C] Roosters on the line.
Look out below, cause here we go.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, truckin' [G] on down [Cm] to the other side. _ _ _
[C] _ Well, we commenced truckin', and them hens commenced the cluckin', and [Eb] Earl took out a match, scratched his pants, and lit up the [Cm] unused half of a dollar cigar [C] and took a puff.
Says, my, ain't this pretty up [G] here.
[C] I says, Earl, this hill can spill us.
You better slow down or you gonna kill us.
[Eb] Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates for them 85 crazy [C] USDA-approved cluckers.
You wanna hit second.
_ [F] Wolf Creek Pass, [C] way up on the Great [G] Divide, _ _ on [Gm] the other side.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
_ Well, Earl grabbed on the shifter and he stabbed her into fifth gear, and [Eb] then the chromium-plated, fully-illuminated, genuine accessory shift [C] knob come right off in his hand.
I says, you wanna screw that [Bm] thing back on, Earl?
[C] He was trying to thread it on there when the fire fell off of his [Eb] cigar and dropped on down, started to roll around, and then lit in the cup Earl's pants and [C] burned a hole in his sock.
Yeah, sorta set him right on fire.
_ [F] I looked on out of the window and [C] I started counting phone poles, [Bb] going by at the rate of four to [C] the seventh power.
Well, [F] I put two and two together and added [C] twelve and carried five, [G] come up with 22,000 telephone [C] poles an hour. _ _ _ _
I looked at Earl and his eyes was wide, his lips was curled, and his legs was fried.
[Bb] His hand was froze to the wheel like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a [C] blizzard.
I says, Earl, I'm not the type to complain, but the time has come [Bb] for me to explain that if you don't apply some brake real soon, they're [C] gonna have to pick us up with a stick and a spoon.
_ Well, Earl reared [Bb] back, cocked his legs, stepped down as hard as he could on the [C] brake, the pedal went clear to the floor and stayed right there on the [Bb] floor.
He said, it's sorta like stepping on a plum.
_ [C] Well, from there on down, it just wasn't real pretty.
It was Harepin [Bb] County and Switchback City.
One of them looked like a can full of worms, [C] another one looked like malaria germs.
[Gm] _ Right in the middle of the whole damn [C] show was a real nice tunnel, now [Gm] wouldn't you know.
_ [C] Sign says, clearance to the [Bb] 12-foot line, but the chickens was [Ab] stacked to 13-9.
Well, we [Gb] shot that tunnel in 110 [C] like gas through a funnel and eggs through a [Bb] head.
And we took that top row of chickens [Ab] off and let her scum off of Louisiana [Gb] Swamp.
Went down and [C] around and around and down, we run out of [Bb] ground at the edge of town, [Ab] bashed into the side of Feed Store [Gb] [Ab] in downtown Pagosa Springs.
[Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F]
Wolf Link passed way [Cm] up on the great deep side, [Bb] truckin' on down the [C] other side. _
[F] Wolf Link passed way up [C] on the great deep side, truckin' on [G] down the [C] other [Ab] side.
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Me and Earl was hauling chickens on the flatbed out of Wiggins, and we'd [Eb] spent all night on the uphill side of 37 miles of hell called [C] Wolf Creek Pass, which is up on the Great Divide.
We was sitting there sucking toothpicks and drinking knee-highs and [Cm] onion soup mix, and I says, Earl, let's [Eb] mail a card to Mother and send them chickens on [C] down to the other side.
Yeah, let's give them a ride.
_ _ [F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, [G] truckin' on down.
_ _ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ Well, Earl put down his bottle and ashes flipped down on the throttle, and then [Eb] a couple of boogies with a thousand cubes and a 1948 [C] Peterbilt screamed alive.
He woke up the chickens.
_ [G] [C] We roared up off of that shoulder, spraying pine cones, rocks, and [Cm] boulders, and [Eb] put 400 head of them Rhode Island Reds and a couple of burnt-out [C] Roosters on the line.
Look out below, cause here we go.
[F] Wolf Creek Pass, way [C] up on the Great Divide, truckin' [G] on down [Cm] to the other side. _ _ _
[C] _ Well, we commenced truckin', and them hens commenced the cluckin', and [Eb] Earl took out a match, scratched his pants, and lit up the [Cm] unused half of a dollar cigar [C] and took a puff.
Says, my, ain't this pretty up [G] here.
[C] I says, Earl, this hill can spill us.
You better slow down or you gonna kill us.
[Eb] Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates for them 85 crazy [C] USDA-approved cluckers.
You wanna hit second.
_ [F] Wolf Creek Pass, [C] way up on the Great [G] Divide, _ _ on [Gm] the other side.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _
_ Well, Earl grabbed on the shifter and he stabbed her into fifth gear, and [Eb] then the chromium-plated, fully-illuminated, genuine accessory shift [C] knob come right off in his hand.
I says, you wanna screw that [Bm] thing back on, Earl?
[C] He was trying to thread it on there when the fire fell off of his [Eb] cigar and dropped on down, started to roll around, and then lit in the cup Earl's pants and [C] burned a hole in his sock.
Yeah, sorta set him right on fire.
_ [F] I looked on out of the window and [C] I started counting phone poles, [Bb] going by at the rate of four to [C] the seventh power.
Well, [F] I put two and two together and added [C] twelve and carried five, [G] come up with 22,000 telephone [C] poles an hour. _ _ _ _
I looked at Earl and his eyes was wide, his lips was curled, and his legs was fried.
[Bb] His hand was froze to the wheel like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a [C] blizzard.
I says, Earl, I'm not the type to complain, but the time has come [Bb] for me to explain that if you don't apply some brake real soon, they're [C] gonna have to pick us up with a stick and a spoon.
_ Well, Earl reared [Bb] back, cocked his legs, stepped down as hard as he could on the [C] brake, the pedal went clear to the floor and stayed right there on the [Bb] floor.
He said, it's sorta like stepping on a plum.
_ [C] Well, from there on down, it just wasn't real pretty.
It was Harepin [Bb] County and Switchback City.
One of them looked like a can full of worms, [C] another one looked like malaria germs.
[Gm] _ Right in the middle of the whole damn [C] show was a real nice tunnel, now [Gm] wouldn't you know.
_ [C] Sign says, clearance to the [Bb] 12-foot line, but the chickens was [Ab] stacked to 13-9.
Well, we [Gb] shot that tunnel in 110 [C] like gas through a funnel and eggs through a [Bb] head.
And we took that top row of chickens [Ab] off and let her scum off of Louisiana [Gb] Swamp.
Went down and [C] around and around and down, we run out of [Bb] ground at the edge of town, [Ab] bashed into the side of Feed Store [Gb] [Ab] in downtown Pagosa Springs.
[Eb] _ _
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Wolf Link passed way [Cm] up on the great deep side, [Bb] truckin' on down the [C] other side. _
[F] Wolf Link passed way up [C] on the great deep side, truckin' on [G] down the [C] other [Ab] side.
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _