Horses And Wars(Chords)

	        
G 
The cow camp is busy the big herd?s uneasy 
                            D7 
The dark sky is rolling and mean 

He rolls him a tight one ties down his slicker 
                          G 
Slaps at some dust on his knee 


He lays out a flat loop throws at the piebald 
                        C 
Laughed as the old pony ducked 
         D7 
Then the third time he caught him 

I guess the old pony let him 
                            G 
Games over he?s startin? to cuss 


Now the night watch is his with his face to the wind 
                          C 
He nods as rides past the boss 
     D7 
He?s hummin? a song that his granddaddy taught him 
                                G 
On the back of that ol? piebald hoss 

       C 
And he rides off to cow town when the fall work is over 

And goes straight to the Two Minnie?s bar 
         D7 
Where he dances till morning with the prettiest ladies 
                                       G 
And tells ?em stories about horses and wars 


The cow camps are empty the lands full of fences 
                          D7 
The cowboys feed hay in a truck 

The chuck wagon stands in a museum in Kansas 
                      G 
Rottin? and gatherin? dust 


He rocks in an old chair his granddaddy made him 
                                    C 
When the plains were still open and free 
        D7 
And his leggings still hang on a nail by the bed 
                                    G 
Gave his spurs to his grandson last spring 


Then he rolls him a tight one and stares at the wall 
                            C 
At a picture of him and the boss 
      D7 
For a while he jumps cattle out of sagebrush and cedar 
                                G 
On the back of that ol? piebald hoss 

        C 
Then he dreams he?s in Cowtown a dancin? till morning 

With the girls at the Two Minnie?s bar 
        D7 
Then he throws down a whiskey with a couple of cowboys 
                                G 
And tells lies about horses and wars 


He?s seen in his lifetime a gas-powered jeepney 
                                   C 
Then a picture they sent back from mars 
    D7 
But all that he prays for is to ride off to glory 
                                G 
On the back of that ol? piebald hoss 

         C 
While he dreams he?s in Cowtown a dancin? till morning 

With the girls at the Two Minnie?s bar 
        D7 
Then he throws down a whiskey with a couple of cowboys 
                                G 
And tells lies about horses and wars