Chords for Johnson County War

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_ _ _ [G] _ _ [A] [Dm] true.
Settled [C] in the foothills [Bm] of the big horn [A] mountain slope.
Life was sweet, we lived on the [G] meat of the deer and the [A] antelope. _ _
We got house logs [Em] up on the [D] mountain, and with the [A] team we hauled them down.
Peeled them and we stacked them up, without some bottom ground.
[Dm] Traded for [Gm] some cattle, turned them out [A] on the open range.
Skies were blue, we [G] never knew how things were going [A] to change.
_ [E] _ [F] Woke [C] by the river, [G] you're muddy [Am] and you're wide.
[F] How many men [C] have died along [E] the shore?
_ [F] When you brand a man [C] a wrestler, _ [G]
he's got to [Am] take a side.
_ There's no [D] middle ground [G] in this Johnson [A] County war.
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Well, the neighbors stopped by yesterday while I was outside chopping wood.
They filled me in on the local [D] news, [A] there ain't none of it sounded good.
Said [F] to bend some [C] cattle steel, [Bm] buy some no count outlaw [A] bands.
We'd all been branded [D] wrestlers by the big [A] ranchers of this land.
_ Well, it was us against the [D] cattlemen, and the years just [A] made it worse.
First the drought, and then the tough [Dm] winter, Johnson County been dealt a [Am] curse.
[F] Then there [C] came the story [Em] about the two dry [Am] Gulch attacks.
Ranger Jones and John [G] Tisdale both [Am] shot in the back.
_ _ [F] _ Woke by [C] the river, [G] you're muddy and [Am] you're wide.
[F] How many men [C] have died along [E] the shore?
When [F] you brand a man a [C] wrestler, [G] he's got to take [Am] a side.
_ _ There's no [Dm] middle ground [G] in this Johnson [A] County war.
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_ _ [A] Then last night at supper [D] time, [A] the writers stopped by chance.
Said the cattlemen and their hired guns [F#] had just burned [A] the KC Ranch.
[Dm] Two men had died [C] this [D] morning, shot [A] down in the snow.
Now the vigilante army [Gm] was on [A] the march to Buffalo.
_ _ Well, the county was in an uproar, and every man saddled up to ride.
Caught the cattlemen at the TA Ranch and surrounded all four sides.
[F] We hailed [C] a house with [G] bullets, [A] swore they were going to pay.
But the cavalry came across the [G] plains, and once again they saved the [Am] day. _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, they marched them off to [G] Cheyenne, and no one [Am] went to jail.
The [N] cattlemen were [G] all turned loose, and their hired [Am] guns hit the tree.
[F] And I guess [C] the only just [D] wasn't much to say the [Am] least.
Last winter, me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef.
[Em] _ _ [F] Oh, [C] Powder River, [G] you're muddy [Am] and you're wide.
[F] How many [C] men have died [E] along the shore?
_ [F] When you brand a [C] man a wrestler, [G] he's got [Am] to take a side.
_ There's no middle [G] ground in this Johnson [A] County war.
_ [Am] There's no middle [D] ground in this Johnson [Am] County war. _ _ _
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