Chords for Corb Lund | "S Lazy H" | Western AF

[C] _ It's not really a true story that all the all the details are from my buddy's place
So it's kind of an amalgam of stories, you know
So yeah
The only places left really that are bigger either like corporate
Ranches or like that are good size or the corporate ones or family ones that a man's just stay together
Yeah, I'd say it's a sad song for the rancher _
Well, _ _ _ _ _ _ I was born in this valley on [F] this ranch
[C] I was raised I learned to look
_ Rope and dally _ [Dm] on the s _ [G] lazy H _
[C] well the roots of my people
They [F] run deep
[C] On this place. _
I am sixth
_ _ [Em] generation [F] on the s
_ [G] [C] lazy H _
_ _ _ _ when it came _
to the future, I [F] never gave _
[C] It a thought if they were Bronx
to be broken in [Dm] less tears
[G] to be caught
[C] Well my youth
It was carefree [F] for the world
[C] Was my play and what I loved [Em]
would always be there
[F] on the s
[G]
lazy [C] H _ _ _ _ I had one
Beloved sister a [F] few years younger [C] than me before so
_ Cowboy kissed her.
She [Dm] left for school
_ [G] in the East [C] and me I might have gone to college [F] might have like
[C] to fly planes
But my dad he [Em] needed help to [F] run the s
_ [G] [C] lazy H _ _
_ _ So I worked there alongside him [F] put out all years
[C] in this place and I gained _ _
Appreciation for [Dm] the lines [G] on his face [C] and when mom
Had grown older [Fm] and when dad [C] passed away
It felt to me
_ [Em] to look after [F] the s
_ [G] [C] lazy H
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ By now my sister
_ She had married [F] a shopper
_ [C] Tony back east we didn't see _ I
Die, but I did [Dm] my best
To [G] make peace
[C] What did they see?
When they looked over [F] over the fence
[C] One fine day they saw a hole [Em] a lot of value [F] in the s
[Am] _ [G] lazy [C] H _ _
_ _ so after five an
assessment [F] the court _ _ [C] awarded
Them half and no cow calf operation _ [Dm] carries that
[C] kind [G] of cash
Well, [C] I worked
through the numbers [F] Worked them
Every [C]
which way?
Yeah, I went
_ Through the numbers
_ [F] _ _ [C] Homeboys, I'm afraid I had to sell
_ [Em] 30 sections _ [F] of the s
_ [G] [C] lazy H
_ _ _ _ _ Sometimes right
_ _ Isn't equal [F] sometimes
_ equals [C] not fair
There was soon
Be rows of houses [Dm] on that Ridge
[G] Over there [C] and many lifetimes of labor _ [F] will be all
[C] But erased to shed a tear _ [Em] and look skyward [F] got healthy s
_ [G] [C] lazy H _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _
_ _ last few years
Were a struggle
[F] but I gave
[C] It my best _ and I tried
To go forward [Dm] on the land
_ [G] That was left.
[C] Well, I have lived
with the sorrow
And [F] I will die
[C] with a shame
for now the bank _ [Em] owns
What's left of?
[F] the s
_ [G] [C] lazy H _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _