Chords for Ed McCurdy - Strawberry Roan (American cowboy song)

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Well I was laying round town [G#] just a-spending my time
Out of a job [C#] and not making a dime
When a feller steps [F#] up and he says
I suppose [G#] you're a bromp riding man by [C#] the looks of your clothes
You guessed me just right, [G#] I'm a good one I claims
Do you happen to have [C#] any bad ones to tame?
He says that he [F#] has an a bad one to buck
And [G#] for throwing good riders he's had [C#] lots of luck
Well it's oh that strawberry roan _
[F#] Oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say [C#] he's a coyote that's never been roaned
[F#] The man that gets [F] on him [C#] is bound to be thrown
Get [G#] off that [C#] strawberry roan
_ _ Well I gets all excited and [G#] I asks what he pays
To ride this old pony [C#] for a couple of days
He offers a ten [F#] spot, says I am your man
For a [G#] bronc never [C#] lived that I couldn't fan
Well he says get your saddle [G#] and I'll give you a chance
So I gets in the buck board, [C#] we drives to the ranch
I stays until [F#] morning and right after chuck
[G#] I steps out to see if this [C#] outlaw can bawk
Well it's oh that strawberry roan
_ [F#] Oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say he's a coyote [C#] that's never been roaned
[F#] The man that gets on him [C#] is bound to be thrown
[G#] Get off that [C#] strawberry roan _ _
_ Down in the corral, [G#]
standing alone
Is this old cabalot, a [C#] strawberry roan
His legs is all spab and he [F#] has pigeon [G#] toes
Two little pig eyes [C#] and a big Roman nose
Little pin ears [G#] that touch at the tip
And a big 44 [C#] run on his left hip
He's ewe necked and old [F#] with a long lower jaw
[G#] I could see with one eye he was a regular [C#] outlaw
Well it's [G#] oh that strawberry [C#] roan
[F#] Oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say he's a [C#] coyote that's never been [F#] roaned
The man that gets [C#] on him is bound to be [G#] thrown
Get off that [C#] strawberry roan _
I buckle on my spurs, [G#] I'm sure feeling fine
I picks up my hat [C#] and curls up my twine
I piles my rope on [F#] him and well I know then
[G#] That afore I get rude I've [C#] sure earned my ten
I gets the blinds on him, it [G#] sure is a fight
Next comes my old [C#] saddle and I screws her on tight
Then I steps unto him [F#] and raises the blinds
[G#] I'm right in his middle to see [C#] him unwind
Well it's oh [G#] that strawberry [C#] roan
[F#] Oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say he's a [C#] coyote that's never been roaned
[F#] The man that gets on [C#] him is bound to be thrown
Get [G#] off that [C#] strawberry roan
_ _ He bowed his old neck [G#] and I guess he's unwound
For he seemed to quit living [C#] down there on the ground
He went up towards the east and [F#] come down towards the west
[G#] To stay in his middle [C#] I'm sure doing my best
He sure is frog walking, [G#] he heaves a big sigh
He only lacks wings [C#] to be on the fly
He turns his old belly [F#] right up to the sun
[G#] He sure is a sunfish and son of [C#] a gun
Well it's [G#] oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] It's oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say he's [G#] a [C#] coyote that's never been [F#] roaned
The man that gets on [C#] him is bound to be thrown
[G#] Throwed by that [C#] strawberry roan _
_ He's about the worst bucker I've [G#] seen on the range
He can turn on a [C#] nickel and give you the change
And when he's a [F#] buck and he squeals like a shoot
[G#] I tell you that pony has [C#] sure got my goat
I claims that no fooling, [G#] that outlaw can step
But I'm still in his middle and [C#] a building rep
He hits on all fours and [F#] he turns on his side
[G#] I don't see what keeps him from losing [C#] his hide
Well it's oh that strawberry roan
[F#] It's oh that strawberry [C#] roan
They [F#] say he's a [C] coyote [C#] that's never been roaned
[F#] The man that gets [C#] on him is bound to be thrown
Be thrown [G#] by that [C#] strawberry roan _
_ Well I loses [G#] my stirrup and also my hat
I'm clawing at [C#] leather as blind as a bat
With a phenomenal jump [F#] he goes up on high
Leaves [G#] me sitting on nothing [C#] up there in the sky
Well I turned over [G#] and comes back to earth
And I lights into [C#] cussing the day of his birth
And I knows their old [F#] ponies I'm not able to ride
[G#] There's some of them left, they haven't [C#] all died
Well it's [G#] oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[G#] [F#] It's oh that [C#] strawberry roan
[F#] They say he's a [C#] coyote that's never been [F#] roaned
The man that gets [C#] on him is bound to be thrown
[G#] Be thrown by that strawberry [C#] _
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