Chords for Dave Stamey performs "Montana" at The Coffee Gallery Backstage 8/22/10

[B] _ _ _ [A] _ [Em] This is a
[B] _
kind of earlier song
_ [G#m] [A] In _ [C#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [G#m] _ [A] _ _ [C] [E] October I'm going to take my dad back [B] to Montana
_ _ [C#m] It'll _ _ _ _ [A#m] be the first time he's been up in that country in [B] over
_ 38 [C#] years
[E] We left there in [A] 71
_ _ [B] _ _ _
_ Montana _ _ _ _
Where most people don't have a polka
[C#] Many of them have never tried it _
[N] Where [A] the [E] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ mosquitoes show up on radar
[E] _ _ _ [D#] _ [C#m] Hey!
That's [C#] a killer movie shotgun
[B] God damn it _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ When I was a kid
[B] [A] The snow would drift
[E] High on the lawn
_ [A] _ _ [C#m] Before daylight broke
[A] I'd be out
[E] With a bucket on my arm
[A] _ _ _ [E] [C#m] And the cattle Would watch
[B] Through the dark [D#] and the cold
[C#] _
_ [C#m] Steaming their [B] bread
Nice in the cold
[A] The [C#] snow would leave
My boots [B] with glitters
_ [A] Before the [C#m] bones
Of a buffalo [B] buried so deep
_ [D#] _
_ _ [E] Montana
My _ [A] _
father [E] gave me _ Montana
[C#m] Oh, _ [B] I [A] know where I go
It [G#m] carries me
_ [A] _ When I look [C#m] inside [B] I see
[G#m] _ _ [D#] _ [G#m] Montana
_ [E] _ He [A] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m]
took us
Up there where he [A] said
A man [E] still
Had a chance
[B] _ [A] _ [C#m] _ To the outlaw flats
[G#m] [A] And the mud [E] of a Horsetravel ranch
[B] _ [A] _ [C#m] _ _ _
My mother's
Mouth [B] got thin and hard
[C#m] And the sage
Grew up [B] round the edge of the yard
[A] I learned
[Em] How to cuss
[B] How to spit like a man
[A] I learned [C#m] the way _ [B] dreams
Get slipped [G#m] clear out
[D#] _
_ _ [E] Montana
_ [B] My [A] _
father [E] gave me Montana
_ [C#m] Oh, _ [A] I know where I go
[G#m] It carries me
When [A] _ _ [B] I look [E] inside [B] I see
_ [G#m] _ [D#] _ _ _ [E] _
Montana
[B] The [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ [B] _ [G#m] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#m] _
_ summer's weed [A] way
In the ditch by the [E] old County road
_ _ [A] _ _ [C#m] _
And the birds [B] flutter And [A] shriek
From the [E] telephone _ poles
_ [A] _ _ _
[C#m] Through the wind
And the [B] cottonwoods
Soft and [C#m] low
We heard the [B] ghost of
A Sioux and a Crow
[A] So much [E] unsaid
[B] Between father and son
[A]
In [E] fact I've been left [B] there In 71 [G#m] [D#] Montana
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] My [A] _
father gave [E] me Montana
[F#] _ [C#m] _
_ [B] Oh, [A] I know where I go
[G#m] It carries me
_ _ [A] When I [E] look inside [B] I see
_ [D#] _ _ [E] Montana
_ My [A] _ father gave [E] me Montana
_ [F#] _ [C#m] And _ _
[A] though I am poor
[G#m] I'll [D#m] never be Out
[A] _ Comes from [C#m] this
Gift he gave [B] to me
_ _ [D#] _ _ _ [E] Montana Montana Montana
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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