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When I Was A Cowboy by Leadbelly




  When I Was A Cowboy 






Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: E

 
[Intro]
E
 
[Verse 1]
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When I was a cowboy
E
Out on the western plains
E
When I was a cowboy
    A                  E
Out on the western plains
  B                E
I made a half a million
B                     E
Pullin' on the bridle reins
       B
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
       B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
 
[Verse 2]
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Oh, de hardest battle
          A                   E
Was there ever on the western plains
E
Oh, de hardest battle
          A                   E
Was there ever on the western plains
E
When me an a bunch of cowboys
B              E
Run into Jesse James
       B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
       B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
 
[Verse 3]
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Me an a bunch of cowboys
E
Run into Jesse James
E
Me an a bunch of cowboys
    A          E
Run into Jesse James
E
All the bullets was a-fallin'
E
Just like a shower rain
       B
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
       B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
 
[Verse 4]
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Oh, de hardest battle
E
Was there ever on Bunker Hill
E
Oh, de hardest battle
          A              E
Was there ever on Bunker Hill
E
When me an' a bunch of cowboys
E
Run into Buffalo Bill
       B
Come a cow ki--yicky
                      E
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yea
       B7
Come a ki-ki--yicky
                    E
Cow, ki-yicky-yicky-yeah
 
[Bridge]
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De boys had it all in for a man on the outskirts of town,
E
And there had made the horses drunk, they had made those 45's drunk, 
E
And the boys was already in there got drunk, and all around that mans house, 
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Them horses was a walking, and them 45's was a talking, 
E
And it sounded best be god to that man, and here what de said:
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Your house catched a fire, and there aint no water round.
E
If your house catches a fire, and there aint no water round
E
Throw your jelly out the window, let the dog gone shack burn down
 
[Verse 5]
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Come all you cowboys
 
Don't you wanna go?
             A
Come all you cowboys
E
Don't you wanna go?
          B        E
Come meet the lone rangers
       B
On the range of buffalo
B7
Come a cow ki--yicky
                      E
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yeah
           B7
Come a cow cow yi--yicky
                      E
Cow, cow, yicky-yicky-yeah






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