Photo Finish Chords by Chris Ledoux

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_ _ _ _ At seven [Eb] this morning [Bb] I got on the phone and said [Eb] to hold my [F] bronc as long as you can.
_ _ My car broke down [Eb] in Billings and [Bb] they just got it put together, I'll [Eb] be photo finishing
[F] in the old Cheyenne.
_ Well here I am [Eb] in Sheridan [Bb] and it's nine o'clock in [Eb] the morning [Bb] and times are going fast.
_ I just [Eb] pulled her over, [Bb] had some coffee and a donut [Eb] and I bought the [F] car a brand new [Bb] tank of gas.
_ [F] Well I don't know if I'm gonna [Eb] make it, it's nine fifteen, I'll be lucky [F] if I ever [Bb] get there.
_ [F] By God, now what's that I [Eb] hear?
Is it a siren?
Sure enough, [F] he got me [Bb] on his radar.
He pulled [Eb] up behind me [Bb] and turned on those flashing lights, [Eb] a sign [F] that I knew meant
[Bb] pull her over.
_ So I stomped [Eb] on my brakes [Bb] and as I skidded to a halt I [Eb] wiped out three [F] reflector posts
[Bb] along the shoulder.
_ He got [Eb] out of his car [Bb] and was a walking real slow, [Eb] so I jumped [F] out and met [Bb] him halfway.
_ He jerked [Eb] out his gun [Bb] and said, Mr.
are you crazy, [Eb] I ain't never [F] seen nobody [Bb] drive that way.
_ _ [F] I told him take it easy [Eb] and he could put up [Bb] that cannon the way [Eb] he's shaking, it [Bb] just
might go off.
_ [F] He put up the gun as I [Eb] explained my [Bb] situation, [Eb] he listened to [F] my story then [Bb] he called.
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_ _ _ _ _ He wrote me out a [Db] ticket, that [Ab] seemed to take forever, I took [Db] it and [Eb] as I headed for [Ab] my
car _ that cop he [Db] hollered out to me [Ab] and said, hey cowboy you better slow down cause you
cannot run this radar.
As I rolled on down the road I was a cursing man a swearing [Db] about the ticket [Eb]
that I [Ab] had just acquired.
[Abm] _ _ I wondered [Db] if I ought to [Ab] pay to throw it out the [Db] window, let imagine [Eb] set the damn [Ab] thing fire.
_ [Eb] So I gunned it once again and [Db] was a traveling down the road with the gas [Eb] pedal mashed [Ab] to the floor.
_ [Eb] When I came around the [Db] curve and right there in the highway there's more damn [Eb] sheep than
I've ever [Ab] seen before.
_ I'm going too [Db] fast to ever [Ab] stop so I just close my [Db] eyes as the car [Eb]
roars on [Ab] through the herd.
_ When I open [Db] up my eyes [Ab] again there's a sheep on the fender [Db] and that herder [Eb] saying some
mighty [Ab] awful words.
_ The sweats are [Db] dripping off my [Ab] hands as I barrel through old Wheatland [Db] I'm a nervous
[Eb] wreck and I must [Ab] be a sight.
_ The flies [Db] inside this old [Ab] car buzzing all around me guess [Db] my 24 hour [Eb]
deodorant quit [Ab] last night.
_ _ 60, 50, 40, [Db] 30, 20 [Ab] miles more the [Db] rodeo starts [Eb] in another [Ab] 18 minutes.
_ [Eb] I pull in through the main gate [Db] and I hear the anthem playing I can't believe it, [Eb] thank
God I [Ab] finally made it.
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_ _ _ _ There's only one [Eb] more obstacle [Bb] that's standing in my way [Eb] it's a nitwit [F]
with a [Bb] weekend badge.
_ He's standing [Eb] by the gate and [Bb] as I slide her to a halt [Eb] he says where in the hell [F] you going
so [Bb] doggone fast.
_ I tell him [Eb] I'm in it and [Bb] I ain't got time to talk [Eb] my horse is [F] in the shoe and [Bb] I'm late.
_ _ He says I [Eb] need to get a [Bb] pass from the secretary [Eb] my eyes get red [F] my heart fills up [Bb] with hate.
_ _ [F] I yell you dirty so and so [Eb] you better let [Bb] me through [Eb] he asked if I'd [F] repeat that once [Bb] again.
_ _ [F] So I whacked him in the mouth and then [Eb] I left him lying there on his back [F]
kicking in [Bb] the sand.
_ I got there [Eb] just in time to see [Bb] my bronc come running out [Eb] his head and [F] tail was held way [Bb] up high.
_ I swear he looked [Eb] right straight at me [Bb] and grinned and gave a horse laugh [Eb] and me I [F] just
stood there [Bbm] and cried.
_ I turned around [Eb] feeling helpless [Bb] and fairly dumbfounded [Eb] I looked [F] and what did [Bb] I see?
_ Three highway [Eb]
patrolmen [Bb] and a gate man with a fat lip [Eb] and they were [F] all looking right [Bb] at me.
_ _ [F] Sitting in the cell now [Eb] I've done a lot of thinking about that wild [F] run I made a [Bb] month ago.
_ _ [F] I'm sorry that I'm in [Eb] this rotten situation if I could do it again [F] I wouldn't have drove [Bb] so slow.
If [Eb] I could do it again [F] I wouldn't have [Bb] drove so slow. _ _ _ _ _
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