Chords for In Lonesome Dove

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She was a girl on a wagon train headed _ west across [G] the plains. _
[Em] The train got lost in a summer [D] storm.
_ _ [Em] They couldn't move west and they couldn't [D] go home.
_ [G] Then she saw him riding through the rain.
_ He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train.
_ [Em] She looked down and her [D] heart was gone.
_ [Em] The train went west but she [D] stayed on.
And [G] lonesome dove, _ _ _ a farmer's daughter with a gentle hand,
_ _ A blooming rose and a bed of sand.
_ [Em] She loved a [C] man who wore a [D] star,
A [Em] Texas [C] Ranger known near and far.
[G] So they got married and they had a child. _ _
But times were rough and the west was wild.
_ So it was no [C] surprise the day she learned
That her [Em] Texas man would [D] not return.
_ To [G] lonesome dove.
_ _ _ _ Back to back with the Rio [C] Grande,
A Christian [G] woman in the devil's land.
She learned the language and [Bm] she learned to fight,
But she never [Am] learned how to beat the lonely night.
[D] _
_ _ _ And [G] lonesome dove, _ _ _ _ _ lonesome dove, _
_ _ _ She watched her boy grow into a man.
_ _ He had an angel's heart in the [G] devil's hand.
_ [Em] He wore a star for all [D] to see.
He [Em] was a Texas lawman's [D] legacy. _ _
[G] Then one day word blew into town. _ _
It seemed the man that shot his father down _
[Em] Had robbed a bank in [D] Cherico.
_ _ [Em] The only thing between [C] them and Mexico
[D] _ _ Was [G]
lonesome dove.
_ _ The shadows stretched across the land
_ _ As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande.
When the smoke [C] finally cleared the street,
_ [Em] The men lay at the [D]
Ranger's feet.
[G] And legend tells to this very day
_ _ The shots were coming from an alleyway.
_ _ But no one [C] knows who held the gun. _
_ There ain't no doubt if you ask [D] someone _
[G] In lonesome dove. _ _ _
[Em] Back to back [G] with the Rio Grande,
[C] A Christian woman [G] in the devil's land.
[Em] She learned the language [Bm] and she learned to fight,
[C] But she never learned how to [Am] beat the lonely night.
_ [D] _ _ _ [G] In lonesome dove, _ _ _ _ lonesome dove, _ _ _ _ _
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