Top Hand

 
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Last winter, I was workin' on the plains above the grave 
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Llano Estacado 
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Elina, my one true love she gave to me her horse 
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His name was Quantro  



          Em             F 
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider 
          Dm     G 
Hell of a fighter 
          C 
I'm a top hand 


 
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I fell in love 
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With a very rich and powerful 
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Cattle baron's daughter 
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She pleaded in the plaza for them to forgive me of 
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The crimes I had committed 



          Em             F 
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider 
            Dm      G 
Pretty good fighter 
          C 
I'm a top hand 


Instrumental
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I was born on the cotton fields alone, and mighty flowin' 
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Rio Bravo 
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I went o' 
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O'er the unpained and unbridled wild land 
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Of the western territories  



          Em             F 
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider 
               Dm      G 
Hell of a good fighter 
          C 
I'm a top hand 


Outro 
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Oh Llano, only men who make the law can write the stories 
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Story of a top hand