Chords for Crack Of A Whip-The Nashville Tribute Band

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_ _ _ [C#] Laws or rules of the Pioneer Company Number 1
[C#m] The horn or bugle shall [C#] be blown every morning at 5 a.m.
when every man is expected to arise and pray,
[C#m] then [F#] attend to his [C#] team, get breakfast, and have everything finished so that he can't be starved by 7 o'clock.
[C#m] Each extra [F#] man is to [C#] travel on the off side of the team with his gun on his shoulder, loaded,
and each [C#m] driver have his gun so placed that he can lay hold of it at a moment's warning.
Number 3
The brethren will halt for [B] an hour about [C#m] noon,
and they must have their dinner ready cooked [F#] so as not to [C#] detain the camp.
Number [B] 4
When the [F#] camp halts for [C#] the night, wagons are to be drawn in a circle,
and the horses to be secured inside [E] the circle. Number [F#] 5
The [C#] horn will blow at 8.30. p.m. when every man must return to his wagon and pray, [C#m] accept the night guard, and be in bed by 9 o'clock, at which time all fires must be put out. Number 6 [B] The camp [C#m] is to travel in close order, and no man leave the camp [F#] 20 rods. Number [C#] 7 Every man [B] is to put as [F#] much interest in taking care of his [C#] brother's cattle and preserving them as he would his own, and no [C#m] man will be [C#] indulged in idleness. Number 8 Every man is to have his gun and pistol in perfect order. Number 9 [F#] Dogs must be tied up at night. [C#] Number 10 Profane language will not be tolerated. Number 11 Let all [C#m] start and keep [F#] together, and let [C#] the cannon bring up the rear and the company guard to attend it, traveling along [C#m] with the gun, and see that nothing is left behind at each stopping place. _ _ _ [B] _ [C#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
_ _ _ [C#] _ You all better leave that ox alone, [N] he's gonna kick you, I've seen him do it. [C#] _ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ [C#] _ _ [C#m] _ [C#] _ _
_ [C#m] _ [E] _ [C#] _ Load up, captain of 50, tears [G#] fall down, drip, [C#] drip, goodbye sweet Naboo at the break of [G#] dawn and the [C#] crack of a whip, sound off, captain of 50, hold tight, [G#] wagon [C#] don't tip, river, cross on over at the break of dawn and [C#] the crack of a whip, cross that wide Mississippi, Sugar Creek, Farmington, Bonaparte, Cross the Des Moines, [G#] how the [C#] rain fell hard, Bluefield, Sheridan, Locust Creek, Come, come, you saints, [G#] brother Clayton [C#] did sing, Dish the bottom, garden growled, Mount Pisgah, how the prayer [F#] winds blow, never did stop raining, [G#] from Canesville [C#] to Council [G#] Bluffs, [F#] cross that cold Missouri, [G#] look down off the end of the [C#] earth, winter quarters was some long hard months, as we buried [C#m] so many of the ones we [C#] loved. Load up, captain of 50, rain falls [G#] down, [C#] drip, drip, wagon, train, roll on at the break of dawn and the crack of a whip, sound off, captain of 50, hold tight, [G#] wagon don't [C#] tip, river, cross on through at the break of [G#] dawn and the crack [C#] of a whip, break of dawn [G#] and the crack [C#] of a whip, Cold _ _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [C#] spring camp, [G#m] elkhorn flows, [C#] say [G#] hello to the [C#] Liberty Pole, [G#] head to [C#] west along the Platte, the ox get [G#] mean as they lose that [C#] fat, Laramie [G#m] Sandhill, [C#] Chimney Rock, we bowed our heads, said a prayer to God, that we'd make it on through to Devon's Gate, gotta fix that wheel, no time to wait, Willis Springs, Split Rock, Drew South Pass, Green River [G#] Camp with a [C#] soft four-class, Church, Butte Bridge, your trading post, won't you thread that needle at the wagon's coast, Load up, captain of 50, sweat [G#] falls down, drip, drip, [C#] wagon, train, roll on at the break of dawn and [C#] the crack of a whip, sound off, captain of 50, hold tight, [G#] wagon don't [C#] tip, hot sun beating on down at the break of [G#] dawn and the [C#] crack of a whip, break of [G#] dawn and the crack [C#] of a whip, [F#] When the sun goes down, circle those wagons round, [C#] feet swell up from a long [E] hard day, but we can't help dance when the pits band [C#] plays, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [C#] _ [G#] _ [C#] _ _
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_ _ _ _ Echo Canyon, can you hear my name, coming back to sing, [F#] I can feel that salt blowing in my sunburned face, as [G#] I hear those words, this is the right place, [C#] Rock on, captain of 50, sweat falls down, drip, drip, wagon, train, roll on at the break of dawn and the crack of a whip, sound off, captain of 50, hold [G#] tight, wagon don't tip, [C#] Saints roll on, bring it on home at the break of dawn and the crack of a whip, break [G#] of dawn and [C#] the crack of a whip, break of dawn and the crack of a whip, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _ [C#] _ _ _
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