Kunci: B major•
Verse 1
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My pal was a
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straight young cowboy
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Honest and upright and square
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But he turned to a gunman and a gambler
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And a bad woman took him there
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Quicker and surer in gunplay
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Till his heart and his body lay dead
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When old Carol insulted her picture,
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Jim filled him full of laughter.
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All night long we trailed him
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through Mesquite and Chaparral,
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as I saw him pitch and fall.
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If she'd been the pal that she should have,
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He might have been raising a son,
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Instead of out there on the prairie,
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To die by a ranger's gun.
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Now death's slow sting did not trouble
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As the light in his eyes grew dim
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But where we were putting his
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body was all that were a gem
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And as we all grouped around him,
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the blood from his wounds flowed red
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He lifted his head on his elbow,
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then he whispered to me and said
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Bury me out on the prairie
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So the coyotes can howl on my grave
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Don't leave me here in the badlands
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From the varmints my bones flee safe
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Wrap me up in my blanket
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Then bury me deep in the ground
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And cover my grave all over
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With boulders huge and round
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So we buried him out on the prairie,
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and the coyotes still howl o 'er his grave.
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But his soul is now resting
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from the unkind touch she gave.
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There's many a lonesome cowboy
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who'll ride with that pile of stones.
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Then think of some similar woman
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And envy Jim's moldering ball
Outro 1
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