Chords for Cheryl Wheeler - Cow Pattern Clothes

I was up in Winnipeg at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, which is a very cool folk festival.
A true world music folk festival.
People [E] _ _ from everywhere in the world.
Instruments you've never seen before.
It's really, really cool.
It's a very cool event, _ but the time that I wrote this song that I was there,
it was raining like you've only seen it rain on television.
And it was just _ unbelievable rain. _
Everything was just a mud fest.
I remember I had to buy a [Bbm] Winnipeg Folk Festival raincoat,
which was basically like a trash bag with [B] a hole cut in it.
And that made me feel just extra pretty.
And _ [F] _ I was [E] very_
you would never know it to look at me.
But I am really _ fastidious with my stuff.
I am.
My friends laugh at me about it.
I mean, I am_
I guess it's OCD or something.
I am.
My stuff is just_
_ _ _ I'm not very tidy, but my stuff is.
[Eb] I actually am a very [B] clean, tidy person.
And oh boy, I just [C] always wipe off my guitar. _
_ _ So I was not happy. _ _
They drive you around on the go, _ _ _ _ _ _ flashing up into your [Dbm] face.
And there's just [G] mud and crap on everything.
And it was really disgusting.
And [D] I was a little cranky.
_ [Em] _ _
I was hanging out with my wonderful friend, the fabulous Patty Norton,
who was so nice [N] all the time.
Patty was really nice.
I was like, God damn it, Patty.
Can't believe you're fucking mad at me.
I was like, _ _ I'm doing okay.
Fuck my _ _ couch.
And she's just been always so nice.
And so she and I, we had a workshop together, Patty and I. _
And I looked at our [Bb] schedules, and it's like _ _ _ songwriters' _ workshops or something like [Db] that.
[E] Two to three. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Workshop results.
I'm like, oh my God.
You don't think they're just going to write a fucking song in the hour off, do you?
Well, sure enough, that was the plan.
And the Winnipeg people are very country, you know.
They [Eb] have bricking stocks on their feet and hands.
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ They're like sitting in piles of round rice. _
_ Which just didn't sense me the other way, you know what I mean?
So _ [D] _ _ we [Gm] go to the first [C] workshop.
While we are taking turns, the four songwriters and the thing, singing,
the audience is passing around a clipboard, writing down their ideas for songs for us to write.
And I'm like, I've noticed [D] something. _ _
_ [C] _ So the clipboard came back, and among the suggestions on the clipboard [Bb] was the following.
Cow pattern clothes.
_ [Bbm] _ _ _ What the hell is there to [E] say?
Once you said cow pattern [N] clothes, I think you've covered the subject.
_ _ _ _ I was like, gee whiz, I'm surprised Irving Berlin didn't snatch that up. _
_ _ _ _ And so I said to the other songwriters, I said, I want this one, I want cow pattern clothes.
_ They're like, sure, you got it.
So we get in this golf cart, and [Db] they take us back to the, you know,
_ _ _ _ [A] _ where you hang out under a _ bunch of stupid songs.
And _ [C] while we were going back to the tent, the sun [Ab] came out.
And we were like sore afraid.
You know, everybody was like, who is that?
We hadn't seen her for so long.
And _ so, _ _ sorry, _ that's sore afraid, thank you.
And _ so in that [Eb] moment when the sun came out, I got the, I got the, _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [E] Thank you. _
_ Is that open [D] too? _ _ _
[Eb] You think that'll be alright?
You should probably close it in case. _ _
_ [Ab] It's the bear. _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ So when the sun came out, I got a little [N] flash of inspiration for my song,
which I'm now going to attempt to do, and I don't remember how to play [Ab] it or what the words are.
But we won't let that stop us.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] Oh, the [Ab] sun is shining in [Bb] the clouds.
_ Beautiful day for cow [Ab] pattern clothes.
And [Db] if it should [Ab] rain again, then I suppose I [Eb] would get water on [Ab] my cow pattern clothes. _ _
So [Db] get along with the sun.
Don't leave them go be [Ab] your hot one, keep them in the nose.
[Bb] Then I'll lift you higher [Eb] up with cow pattern clothes.
[Db] Do you let the sun so [Ab] far?
Don't you think it flows?
If it rains, it's fine, it stops in a minute.
[Eb] Cow pattern clothes.
_ _ [Db] Cow pattern shirts.
[Ab] Cow pattern hats.
[Bb] Cow pattern ball [Eb] gowns.
Cow pattern jockstraps.
[Db] Cow pattern [Ab] cardigans.
Cow pattern [Bb] leotards.
Cow pattern maple [Eb] vests.
Cow pattern knee-highs.
_ _ [Ab] Oh, _ _ [Eb] cow pattern clothes.
_ Oh, _ cow pattern clothes.
Oh, _ _ _ [Ab] cow pattern clothes.
[Eb] Cow pattern, cow pattern. _ _ _ _ _ _ _