Chords for Old Horse

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[G] My foot's in the stirrup [C] and my bridle's in my hand
[G] Good morning young ladies
[C] My pony won't stand
Goodbye old paint
[G] I'm leaving [C] Cheyenne
Goodbye _ old paint [G] I'm leaving [C] Cheyenne _
_ _ _ [G] _ Old horse, your days are [C] numbered _
Your race is almost run
[G] _ But I wouldn't sell or trade you old horse
[C] Because of the things you've done
_ _ _ Just what I'm gonna [Em] do with you sure has got me treed [G] but _
[C] I promise you one thing old part
They'll never round you up to be dog food or chicken feed
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[C] You who was once so toppy _
[G] So pretty, so proud, so grand
[C] _ Well you're called a public nuisance now [G] by the folks who run this land _ _
They say away with useless horses _
That almost makes me weep
Away [G] with useless horses
_ [C] Make a little more room for sheep
And _ [G] you crippled yourself in the ankle old [C] horse
Running the last wolf off this range
[A] _ _ [G] And now, there's no room for [C] you old horse
My _ god, some [G] folks are strange _
_ _ _ Well we've seen many tough [C] times together
And though you weren't always fit
[G] You carried me through some tight places old part
And you was [C] never known to quit
_ Up trails that [G] were wantonly winding
And down slides [A] ungodly steep
Through quicksand or snow if I wanted to go
Or rivers [G] wide and deep
And you crippled yourself in the ankle [C] old horse
_ _ Yeah you took some pretty [G] hard spills
Running around precariously over these [C] rough old hills
_ _ But I can't hold that against you old horse
_ [G] How are you to know
If a smooth rock [C] was laying there sloping under a little fresh snow
How could you see a wash [G] drifted over in winter
Or perchance a [C] miniature lake frozen and covered
Pretty [G] hard to see _
Now these are chances cow [C] ponies take _ _
_ That day [G] the bumble bee stung you
You blamed it on to me
_ [C] Hand dropping your head pretty quick
You throwed me into a tree
_ _ I was mad as I could be for a moment
_ [G] And then I saw [C] the welts on you _ _ _
And I thought
[G] Well old boy I guess [C] you done about the same as I would do
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[G] _ _ And now we're riding up against a hard one [C] now old horse
And it could be we're riding for a fall
[G] But I'm going to hold on to you anyhow
[C] In spite of all their gall _ _ _
I guess I'll stake a homestead over [G] yonder on Bitter Creek
_ [C] _ And build for you a pasture that'll make you fat [Am] and slick
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Away with [A] useless horses they [G] say _ _
_ [C] Useless old horses if you please
_ _ _ [G] _ Well they won't ever see that old bad ankle [C] old horse _
_ _ You're going to be in grass way up past your knees _ _ _ _
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