James Mcmurtry – Lights Of Cheyenne chords
Chords:
I HOPE THIS IS CLOSE ENOUGH. I AM HAPPY WITH IT. I COULD NOT FIND ANY VERSIONS OF THIS SONG ANYWHERE, SO THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH. CAPO on the second fret D4= XX0233 G/F#=220033 LIGHTS OF CHEYENNE Cadd9= X32033 G = 320033 JAMES MCMURTRY Em7= 022033 VERSE 1Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Look off down the highway at the glittering lightsCadd9 G E D4 Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonightCadd9 D4 Em7 As the diesels come grinding on up from the plainsG Cadd9 D4 All bunched up like pearls on a stringG Cadd9 G And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at allCadd9 G Em7 D4 And out on the horizon the broken stars fallCadd9 D4 Em7 Old broken stars they fall down on the landG Cadd9 D4 G And get mixed together with the lights of CheyenneVERSE 2Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my backCadd9 G Em7 D4 Workin' the counter to take up the slackCadd9 D4 Em7 Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's lowG Cadd9 D4 You ain't worked a week since JulyG Cadd9 G You say the gravel pit's hiring After the firstCadd9 G Em7 D4 But you don't have the nature for that kind of workCadd9 D4 Em7 You might get hired on But you won't make a handG Cadd9 D4 G And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of CheyenneCHORUSD4 You stand in the skyCadd9 G with your feet on the groundD4 Cadd9 Never suspectin' a thingD4 But if the sky were toCadd9 G move you might never be foundEm7 G/f# Cadd9 Never be heard from againVERSE 3Cadd9 G Cadd9 G We go on good behavior when our youngest comes homeCadd9 G Em7 D4 She comes up from Boulder but she never stays longCadd9 D4 Em7 And that oldest still fights me like she was 18G Cadd9 D4 Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile agoG Cadd9 G And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sightCadd9 G Em7 D4 All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday nightCadd9 D4 Em7 And they were off to the bars for lack of a planG Cadd9 D4 G Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne(little solo part goes here) VERSE 4Cadd9 G Cadd9 G And you've kept all that meanness inside you so longCadd9 G Em7 D4 You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrongCadd9 D4 Em7 Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the lawG Cadd9 D4 I look at your right, or I don't look at allG Cadd9 G Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shakeCadd9 G Em7 D4 Out by the dumpster on a cigarette breakCadd9 D4 Em7 With one eye swelled up from the back of your handG Cadd9 D4 G And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne- chorus- VERSE 5Cadd9 G Cadd9 G Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gunCadd9 G Em7 D4 Come opening weekend you won't see a oneCadd9 D4 Em7 They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they knowG Cadd9 D4 But now they're up to the fence in the early dawnG Cadd9 G And it's warming up nicely for this time of yearCadd9 G Em7 D4 The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clearCadd9 D4 Em7 And I don't have it in me to make one more standG Cadd9 D4 G Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne