Chords for Jerry Jeff Walker - NIGHT RIDER'S LAMENT (LIVE 1993).MPG

[G] and family entertainment.
_ This is one I've been singing about 20 years.
I call it the cowboy philosophy song.
It was written by a friend of mine
named Michael Burton.
_ It's been floating around
and Garth Brooks [Eb] put it on
his new album and
we now have the number one album in the world
having a [D] yodeler on it.
Oh nice.
_ But anyway
_ _ we'll _ do it our version, it's a little funkier. _
While I
was [G] out a-ridin'
_ [D] the graveyard
shouldn't be [A] left too long
[G] the moon was as bright
[D] as a reader's eye
[A] for a letter from
an old friend [D] back home
and he [G] asked me
why [A] do you [D] write funny money
_ [G] why [A] do you rope [D] short pay
[G] you ain't [A] gettin' no
[D] when you're [G] losing your share _
[Em] _ you [A] must have gone [D] crazy out there
_ _ [B] _ [D] said her last night I would [G] run on to Jenny
she's [D] married she has a [A] good life
[G] you sure miss the track
[D] when you never come back
[A] she's a perfect _ [D] professional's wife
she's married to a so-called accountant
she [G] asked me
[A] why do you [D] write funny _ [G] money
why [A] do you [D] rope short pay
[G] you ain't [A] gettin' no when [D] you're
[G] losing your [Gb] share
[Em] _ _
you [A] must have gone
crazy [D] out there
but I [G] guess they've never [A] [D] seen
the northern [G] lights
they've never [A] seen a
duck [D] on the wing
[G] they've [A] never seen the spring
[D] in the [G] great divine
_ [Em]
they've _ _ [A] never heard
[Bm] camp [D] cookies sing
called it high lonesome when he [G] sang
_ [A] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ [G] _ _
[D] [Em] read _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [D] up the [G] last
of my old letter
_ [D] tore off the [A] stamp
for black Jim
_ [G] and Dougie
wrote up [D] to relieve me
[A] he looked at my letter
[D] then he grinned _
_ and he [G] said now
why do they
[Em] write for their [G] money
tell me why
do they rope [E] short pay
_ [N] _
they ain't gettin' no where
hell they just traded in
buffalo chips for microchips
for _ _ [G] losing their share
[Em] _ _ [A] they all must be crazy [D] out there
but _ [G] they've [A] never seen
[D] the northern lights
[G] they've [A] never seen a duck [D] on the wing
[G] they've [A] never seen the spring
[D] in the great [G] [Bm] divine
_ [Em] _ _ [A] they've never heard camp [D] cookies sing _ sing
[G] _
_ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ I [G] _ _ _ [D] _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [E] need your _ _ love [G] oh _ let
[A] _ _ me hold it _ _ _
_ _ hold _ it _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [N] _