He Shouldnt-a Hadnt-a Oughtnt-a Swang On Me

	  		 Intro 

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 He sleeps out there, out where the coyotes wail, 
     D         A            E            B 
 The reason he ain't at the bar with the boys, 
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 Makes quite a dismal tale ... 



    A            C         D          E        A 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me, 
    A           C            D         E     B 
 He oughtn't-a, shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, no siree. 
     C              D 
 You don't get many callers, 
          E               B 
 Sleeping on the lone prairie. 
        A            C         D          E        A 
 But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me. 



 verse 1 

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 Way out West we're wild and wooly, 
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 In order to explain it fully: 
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 We're tall grown,  all grown, 
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 All the men are hairy-chested, 
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 And all the women, double-breasted. 
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 We're lady-like until molested, 
     B          D      E 
 And then we're on our own! 



    A            C         D          E        A 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me, 
    A          C           D        E       B 
 He oughtn't-a shouldn't-a hadn't-a felt so free. 
     C               D 
 His wife gets the insurance, 
         E            B 
 And I'm sorry as can be, 
        A            C         D          E        A 
 But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me. 



 verse 2 

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 This here job is mighty tryin', 
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 Sometimes the room is fairly flyin' with 
  C    D       C   D 
  High-balls,  eye-balls. 
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 One got killed, somebody got 'im, 
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 Tore up the joint from top to bottom. 
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 I think I was that one that shot him, 
    B       D   E 
 As near as I recall. 


    A            C         D          E        A 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me, 
    B         A             B          E     B 
 He massacred eight or nine men at the Lazy "B". 
    A                C                D         A 
 He then took on the sheriff, and the sheriff's deputy, 
        A            C         D          E        B 
 But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me. 



 verse 3 

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 All you boys remember Harry, 
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 The wrangler I was set to marry, 
   C    D     C      D 
 A long man,  strong man. 
 A 
 One night he yells, "I'm from Texas!" 
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 And socks me in my solar plexus. 
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 Well having normal, good reflexes, 
   B           D      E 
 I knocked him on his can! 


    B            D         E          F#         B 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a blacked my eye, 
     E        B        D         F       C 
 I'm really a lovable, peaceable kind of guy. 
   C                D             E               B 
 I wouldn't scare a rabbit, and I couldn't harm a flea, 
        B            D         E          F#        B 
 But he shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me. 



 Music 1 

 verse 4 

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 If this story has a moral, 
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 It's: When you're looking for a quarrel or 
  C    D       C    D 
  Show Down.  "Slow down." 
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 If by now, you haven't mastered, 
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 The gentle art of getting plastered, 
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 You're just a Low-Down, you ain't mastered, 
     B     D      E 
 The motto of our town! 


     B            D         E          F#       B 
 You shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a start no fight, 
     D                          F        C 
 Our burying ground is a most impressive sight. 
     C               D                E             B 
 The message on them tombstones is as simple as can be, 
    D            E         B          E     C# F# 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me, 
    E            F#        C#         F#    D  A 
 He shouldn't-a, hadn't-a, oughtn't-a swang on me!