Written by Roy Robinson
Intro: C G F F C G C
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Pushin horns weren't easy
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like the movie says it was
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I don't remember dance hall girls
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Or hotel rooms with rugs
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You worked hot and tired and nasty
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Rode your pony's head too low
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And all them nights you couldn't sleep
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Cause it was too damn cold
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And we sing Strawberry Roan, Little Joe
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Like the time we hit the river
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And the rain begun to fall
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The water risin' so damn fast
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We thought it'd drown us all
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Now we lost a lot of steers that day
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And four or five good mounts
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But when all the boys rode into camp
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We knew that's what counts
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And we sang, yippie ti yi yay, Amazing Grace
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Or the night they broke behind us
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And they took us by surprise
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I whistled out to Bonner
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I saw the terror in his eyes
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And he rode for all his horse would ride
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And I know he done his best
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But he crossed over Jordan
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Ridin' Dunny to his death
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And we sang, Bringing in the Sheaves and The Rugged Cross
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When you see the cowboy
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He's not ragged by his choice
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And he never meant to bow them legs
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Or put that gravel in his voice
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Just chasin' what he really loves
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What's burnin' in his soul
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Wishin' to hell that he'd been born a hundred years ago
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Still singin' Strawberry Roan and Little Joe
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still singin' Strawberry Roan... and Little Joe
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