Chords for Oh Why, Oh Why, Did I Ever Leave Wyoming (1947) - Curly Gribbs

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Oh, give me [F] back my prairie [Bb] with the cattle [F] and wild game
[Dm] Where the hills are nice and curvy and the women are [C] the [F] same
Where cowboys all yell whoopee while [Bb] a larry if [F] they twirl [C] and the timber [Gm] will yell
When they see a pretty [C] girl.
Oh, why [D] oh, why did I ever leave [G] Wyoming? _
Why oh, [C] why did I ever [Am] have to go?
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Why oh, [D] why did I ever leave Wyoming?
Cause there's a sheriff [C] back there looking [F] for me
High [C] and low [F] and high [C] and low
Back [Ab] home in [F] the Wyoming [Bb] folks are acting [F] mighty strange
Since [Dm] they started social crime and how [G] they've changed the good old rain
[C] Our farm [Gm] is now [F] a dude ranch and there's carpet on the trail
[Gm] The cowboys wear [Ebm] tuxedos and the horses all wear tails
[C] Oh, why [D] oh, why did I ever [G] leave Wyoming?
_ Why [C] oh, why did I ever [F] have to go?
Oh, [C] why oh, [D] why did I ever [G] leave Wyoming?
Cause there's a sheriff [C] back there looking [F] for me
[C] High and low and high and low
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_ My uncle Max and Cheyenne [Bb] claims he's honest [F] as the sun
[Dm] He worked six years in a bathhouse [G] and he never [C] took a one
[Dm] The sheriff [G] finally got him [Bb] and no more will [F] Uncle Rome
[Gm] They caught him [C] working in a bank and taken trampled home
Oh, why [D] oh, why did I ever [G] leave Wyoming?
_ [C] Why oh, why did I ever [F] have to go?
_ Oh, why [D] oh, why did I ever [G] leave Wyoming?
Cause there's a sheriff [C] back there looking [F] for [C] me
High and low [G] and high and [F] low _
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