Chords for End of an Age

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[Am] I grew up with stories [F] about the ghost of Boot [C] Hill, Teddy Blue Abbott, [G] and Scandalous Bill
[Am] Them boys are all gone [F] now, them holes have been filled
[C] My body's a [G] cowboy's who left no _ wills, and some are snatter [Am] than hay
_ [Dm] You [F] _ _ _ [Am] only hear them stories [F] when you're out on the range
[C] With the real old [G] boys on the real old planes
[Am] Not rodeo riders, [F] or farmers of land
[C] I was a singer in a [G] barroom, or an ag business man _
Just that old kind [Am] of fire tales
_ [F]
And _ _ [A] I [Am] heard the story [F] back when I was a kid
About [C] a crafty wild [G] stallion, and he stole mares and hid
_ [Am] They couldn't kill him [F] cause he stayed out of range
[C] He was a saber-toothed rocket [G] with a human brain
_ _ The king [A] of [Am] the planes
_ [F] An _ _
[A] _ old [F] Tedex watched him for many a year
And [C] he followed his footsteps [G] and learned what he feared
[A] He [Am] staked out four [F] gildings the fastest he had
[C] In twenty mile stretches [G] across a hundred miles of land
_ Gumbo [Am] and hard pan
And [F] _ _ _ [Am] _ early next [F] morning he spotted his prey
[C] And he built to the [G] stallion on his horse named Bay
[A] And [Am] they jumped to fences [F] as they tore across the plains
[C] Hazing that stallion [G] towards the next horse exchange
And he [A] gave Bay the [Am] reins
_ [F] And _ _ [Am] he got off Bay [F] all lathered and sore
[C] And he saddled up Red [G] and went a-running some more
[Am] _ Hazing the stallion [F] across badlands and sage
With [C] the stallion and Tex _ [G]
caught in a rage
Of this [A] horse that [Am] won't cage
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Am]
Next horse was Buck [G] when he [F] came down to swap
The [C] hot afternoon sun [G] had a red bottle drop
[Am]
Buck was sure [F] footed and quick on his feet
[C] And they went chasing the stallion [G] in a Montana heat
There stood a [Am] Mississippi
_ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Am] And the last horse was [F] Blacky with the sun getting low
[C] And out of western horizon [G]
beginning to glow
[Am] Stallion he stumbled [F] and fell with his pride
[C] But got up and running, [G]
damn how he tried
_ And then he [Am] fell and died
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [A]
Talked about horses [F] but I ain't mention Tex
[C]
Blood on his shafts [G] from them blisters he bled
[Am] A hundred miles running [F] and taking his toll
That [C] old stud was his hero, [G] his heart and his soul _
Till now he [A] didn't [Am] know
_ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Am] Tex looked [F] on the ground where he died
And [C] maybe his final love was [G] still a glare in his eye
[Am] The stallion had stumbled [F] and died in the sage
[C] It all represented [G] the end of an age
The [A] end of an [Am] age
_ [F] I _ _ _ [Am]
grew up with stories [F] about the ghost of Boot Hill
[C] Or Teddy Blue Alley, [G] the scandal of his build
[Am] The wars are all gone [F] now, the holes have been filled
[C] But bodies of [G] cowboys have left no _ wills
Some are sadder [Am] than him, _ _ [F] _
some are sadder [Am] than him
_ [F]
Some are [A] sadder than him _ _ _ _