Chords for The Dead South - "Broken Cowboy"

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_ [G] It's _ _ _ [C] _ [E] _
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_ _ _ _ _ a long dark dirty road, [F] _ a pocket [C] full of gold, _ [E] and I've been out here now _ [Am] _ all on my _ own.
_ Well it's real quiet here, _ [F] _ just the way [C] I like it here, [E] there's no one about me except
[Am] _ for [E] _ [Am] _
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1955.
_ _ [F] _ _ Born [C] into a deen of sprite, [E] _ I laid my head on [Am] that _ Milligan Creek bed.
_ [E] _ [Am] _ When I was a young man, _ [F] I helped build [C] this land, oh [E] I put down these rails as [Am] a CPR _ man.
_ _ Lord I live forever, _ [F] _ with my heart [C] in my pocket, oh [E] my gun by my side, [Am] my feelings in a locket.
_ _ _ Well that was a cold year, _ [F] _ in [C] 77, _ _ [E] but I married my wife, _ _ [Am] _ we had two kids.
_ [D] _ [Am] _ I gave her a daughter, _ _ [F] _ she gave me [C] a son, though [E] we rode those damn horses _ _ [Am] until we had none.
[E] _ _ [Am] _ Fist still like flying, _ _ [F] _ doing [C] things for dying, oh I [E] should have put that old gun _ [Am] away.
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_ _ [F] But _ I, _ _ _ [G] I am a _ broken _ [Am] cowboy, _ _ _ _ _ [F] and I [C] don't feel right [E] no _ _ more, _ _ [F] cause I _ [G]
am a broken [Am] cowboy.
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_ _ _ _ Living life in the fast lane, _ [F] _ racing cars [C] and robbing trains, [E] I thought I had it all,
but then [Am] one day I got the call.
_ [E] _ [Am] _ The father's worst dream, _ [F] _ my [C] son went down and [E] I, _ _ _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ the colors deceive _ [F] me, cause I [C] see
the light, [Em] oh [E] yeah, gun me down with _ those, [Am] _ cold words you're saying.
[E] _ [Am] _ Then you called me brother, _
_ [F] _ but this [C] can't be so, cause [E] you slandered my name, _ [Am] anywhere
the wind will _ blow.
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[F] But I, _ _ _ _ [G] I am a _ broken [Am] cowboy, _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] and I _ [C] don't feel right no [E] _ _ _ _ more, [F] cause I _ [G] _ am a broken [Am]
cowboy.
_ _ _ _ _ Yes [F] I _ [G] am a broken [Am]
cowboy, [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _
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on a dark dirty road, _ [F] _
_ blocking [C] for a girl, _ [E] now _ I've been out here
now _ [Am] _
all night.
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Well it's real quiet here, [F] _
just the [C] way I like it here, [E]
there's no one to bother me,
except [Am] _ that old taunting train. _
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