The Last Cowboy Song — The Highwaymen
Chords and lyrics for The Last Cowboy Song by The Highwaymen (key of D).
Verse 1
"The Last Cowboy Song" - The Highwaymen
Track 2 of 10 on the album "Highwayman" (1985)
Intro
[D]
Chorus
[D]This is the last cowboy song
The [D]end of a hundred year [G]waltz
The [A7]voices sound sad as they're singing along
Another [A7]piece of America's [D]lost
Verse 1
[D]He rides the feed lots, clerks in a market
On [D]weekends selling tobacco and [A7]beer
And his [A7]dreams of tomorrow, surrounded by fences
But [A7]he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't [D]here
Verse 2
[D]He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And [D]eyeball to eyeball, old Wyatt backed [A7]down
He stood [A7]shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And [A7]rode with the Seventh when Custer went [D]down
Chorus
[D]This is the last cowboy song
The [D]end of a hundred year [G]waltz
The [A7]voices sound sad as they're singing along
Another [A7]piece of America's [D]lost
Verse 3
[D]Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
And [D]Louis L'Amour has told us his [A7]tale
Me and [A7]Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him
And [A7]wish to God we could have ridden his [D]trail
Verse 4
[D] The old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete now
[D] And they truck 'em to market in [G]fifty-foot rigs
[A7] They roll by his marker and don't even notice
Like living and [A7]dying was all he ever did[D]
Chorus
[D]This is the last cowboy song
The [D]end of a hundred year [G]waltz
The [A7]voices sound sad as they're singing along
Another [A7]piece of America's [D]lost
[D]This is the last cowboy song
The [D]end of a hundred year [G]waltz
The [A7]voices sound sad as they're singing along
Another [A7]piece of America's [D]lost
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