The Last Cowboy Song

	  		

 (all together):  
           D  
	This is the last cowboy song   
                                    G  
	The end of a hundred year waltz  
              A  
	The voices sound sad as they're singing along  
                                     D  
	Another piece of America is lost
  
  
  
Verse 1:
 (Waylon Jennings)  
            D  
	He rides the feed lots,works in a market  
                                       A  
	On weekend selling tobacco and beer  
  
	He dreams of tommorrow surrounded by fences  
                                                        D  
	But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here 
 
  
  
Verse 2:
 (Kris Kristofferson)  
           D  
	He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark  
                                                 A  
	And eyeball to eyeball old Wyatt backed down  
  
	He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas  
                                                    D  
	And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down
  
  
  
 (all together):  
           D  
	This is the last cowboy song   
                                    G  
	The end of a hundred year waltz  
              A  
	The voices sound sad as they're singing along  
                                     D  
	Another piece of America is lost
    
  
  
Verse 3:
 (Willie Nelson)  
           D  
	Remington showed us how he looked on canvas  
                                      A  
	And Louis Lamour told us his tale  
  
	Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him  
                                                   D  
	And wish to God we could have ridden his trail  
  
  
Verse 4:
 (spoken-Johnny Cash) and the three others sing the Chorus.  
           D  
	The old chisom trail is covered in concrete  
                                               G  
	They truck it to market in fifty foot rigs  
           A  
	They roll by his graveside and don't even notice  
                                               D  
	Like living and dieing was all he ever did  
  
  
 (all together):  
           D  
	This is the last cowboy song   
                                    G  
	The end of a hundred year waltz  
              A  
	The voices sound sad as they're singing along  
                                     D  
	Another piece of America is lost