Chords for The Lights of Cheyenne | James McMurtry

_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Ab] And I'm going to sing a song.
Look off down the [Db] highway [Ab] at the glittering lights _
_ [Db] [Ab] Like windshield glass on the [Eb] shouldered nights _
_ [Db] As the diesels come grinding [Eb] on up from [Fm] the plains
All bunched up like [Eb] pearls on a string
_ [Ab] I guess time don't mean nothing, not nothing at all
_ _ And out on the horizon the [Eb] broken stars fall
_ _ [Ab] Oh, broken stars they [Fm] fall down on the [Ab] land
And get mixed in together [Eb] with the [Ab] lights that shine _
Well, I've been up all night and I'm down in my back _ _
I've been working the counter to [Eb] take up the slack
Cause the money tree's late and the [Fm] whiskey stream's low
_ _ [Ab] You ain't worked a week since July
You say the gravel pit's [Db] hiring [Ab] after the first _
But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
[Db] You might could hire [Eb] on, but you won't [Fm] make a hand
[Ab] And I'll [Db] still be here looking at the [Ab] lights that shine
You _ [Eb] stand in the sky with your feet on the ground
Never [Db] suspecting a thing
[Eb] If [Fm] the sky were to move you [Ab] might never be found
[F] Never be heard [Db] from again
We [Ab] go on good behavior [Db] when our youngest [Ab] comes home
_ _ [Db] [Ab] She comes up from Boulder, [Eb] but she don't stay long
[Db] And that oldest still fights me [Fm] like she was 18
She _ stopped [Eb] in for a six-pack a while ago _ _
[Ab] She's got a cowboy problem, and this last one's a sight _ _
He's all dressed up like gun smoke for [Eb] Saturday night _
[Db] And they were off to the bars [Fm] for lack of a plan _ _ _
[Db] Erasing those stars till the [Ab] lights are shining
_ _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Ab] You've kept all that meanness inside you so long _
_ You'd fight with a fence post if it looked [Eb] at you wrong _ _
[Db] Well, a post won't hit back and it won't [Fm] call the law
[Ab] I look at you [Eb] right, or I don't look at [Ab] all
Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake _
_ Out by the dumpster on a [Eb] cigarette break
With _
_ [Ab] one eye swollen up from [Fm] the back of your hand
And the other eye fixed [Ab] on the light so shy
_ _ [Bb] [Eb] You stand in the sky with your [Ab] feet on [Eb] the ground
Never [Bb] suspecting a thing
But [Fm] if the sky were to [Db] move you might never be found
Never [Eb] be [Db] heard from again _
[Ab] Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun _ _
But come opening weekend you [Eb] won't see one
[Db] They'll vanish like ghosts, [Fm] cause somehow they know
But _ [Db] now they're up to the fence in the early [Ab] dawn
And it's warming up nicely [Db] for this [Ab] time of year
The _ creeks are still frozen but [Eb] the roads are all clear _ _
[Db] And I don't [Bb] have it in me to make [Fm] one more stand _
Though [Eb] I never much cared for [Ab] the lights of Cheyenne _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ _ [Db] _