{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2543109,"song":"Wild Bill Hickok","artist":"Colter Wall","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11512885-wild-bill-hickok-chords-by-colter-wall/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2543109?type=chord","rating":4.7687,"votes":46,"content":" Colter tunes his guitar down 1 whole step, if you do too, Capo on the 3rd. Chords relative to the capo.\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWild Bill was born in Illinois on dry and fertile land[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPioneer of pistoleers and a dead shot with each hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClaimed he was the quickest, there's few who'd ill-agree[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                                     [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFewer yet to saw this plainsman draw, still breathe like you and me[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe led a stagecoach freight team in his early days of life[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                                  [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOne evenin' on the Western Trail, Bill took the air of night[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd who should come upon him, but a bear whom he'd awoke[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWild Bill produced his bowie knife and fashioned a new coat[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nKansas prairies he knew well and wild Missouri too[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCome 1861, Bill donned the Union blue[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNot unlike his daddy, he'd see no man in bonds[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nEvery man in Jimmy Lane's brigade, of Hickok they were fond[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhile a marshal in Abilene many Texans came to call[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                               [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPhil Coe told John Wes Hardin, \"Wild Bill has got to fall[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"He's a cruel and brutish yankee, and if you don't then I will\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWild Bill put down Phil Coe, Wes Hardin's livin' still[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe met his fate in Deadwood inside Tom Nuttall's place[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]F[/ch]                                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAmidst a game of poker, holdin' Aces and two Eights[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen up stepped from behind him the Coward, Jack McCall[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                         [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe slug ripped through his auburn hair, poor Wild Bill never saw[/tab]","plain_text":"Colter tunes his guitar down 1 whole step, if you do too, Capo on the 3rd. Chords relative to the capo.\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]","chords":["C","F","D7","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}