One Empty Cot In Bunkhouse(Chords)

	        Theres a few little differences in the one verse from the rest and even the 
chorus changes a little bit,  but as an ol'boy told me one time, thats just 
the way the script was wrote. 
 
Theres One Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse           By Red Steagall 
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(G)Theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse 
Theres a saddle that (G7) nobody (C) rides 
One empty place at the (G) table 
The remuda is five horses (D) shy 
 
(G) We turned his string out to pasture 
He'll never ride em (G7) no (C) more 
We buried him out on the hillside (G) last sunday 
Another (D) good cowboys gone (G) home 
 
(G) He came on a train to west Texas 
>From a farm back in (G7) east (C) Tennessee 
All he wanted outa life was to (G) cowboy 
He came west to full fill his (D) dream 
 
(G) He got his first job on the sixes 
That was forty some (G7) odd years (C) ago 
He was the best we ever saw with the (G) bad ones 
One hell of a hand with a (D) rope 
 
(G) I saw him just one time in service 
It was the day that the boss (G7) lady (C) died 
You could tell by the way, he handled (G) people and horses 
He'd made his own deal with his (D) god 
 
(G) Now theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse 
Theres a saddle that (G7) nobody (C) rides 
One empty place at the (G) table 
The (D) remuda is five horses (G) shy 
 
(G) He hated to fence and dig post holes 
He would if he's ask (G7) to of (C) course 
Then he'd swear how theres nothin in life (G) thats worth doin 
If it can't be done from a (D) horse 
 
(G) He taught me how to top out the bad ones 
How to tell a good horse (G7) from his (C) eye 
How to watch on the roundup when a (G) cows on the prod 
Shes hidin her baby (D) nearby 
 
(G) Well we ain't changed a thing in the bunkhouse 
We ain't ready to admit (G7) that hes (C) gone 
His hot roll still lays across the (G) foot of his bed 
His leggins still hang on the (D) wall 
 
(G) But theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse 
Theres a saddle that (G7) nobody (C) rides 
One empty place at the (G) table 
The (D) remuda is five horses (G) shy