{"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":66997,"song":"The Cowboy Outlaw","artist":"Brian Dewan","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11543832-the-cowboy-outlaw-chords-by-brian-dewan/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/66997?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\r\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\r\n[tab][ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nGather 'round my children, and I'll tell a tale of woe[/tab]\r\n\r\nAbout a famous cowboy outlaw who lived a hundred years ago.\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                 [ch]C#m[/ch]           [ch]F#[/ch]\r\nToday his soul at last is resting peacefully in hell[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G#m[/ch]                                      [ch]C#m[/ch]     [ch]D#m[/ch]     [ch]G#m[/ch]\r\nThough many years have passed away since through the gallows-trap he fell.[/tab]\r\n\r\nHe was sitting propped up in a chair just after he was hanged\r\nAnd they photographed his body as a distant churchbell rang.\r\nA circus man was waiting with fifty dollars in his coat\r\nAnd he bought the cowboy outlaw so he could have him in his show.\r\n\r\nAnd very soon he was embalmed and toured from town to town\r\nPeople paid to see the outlaw that they'd heard so much about\r\nHe stood before them with a pistol against a painted scene\r\nThe greatest cowboy outlaw that the world had ever seen\r\n\r\nBut in time he was forgotten and no one knew his name\r\nAnd when he began to fall apart they took his booth away\r\nThey painted him with varnish and put a crown upon his head\r\nCome and see the king of Egypt said the sign out front instead\r\n\r\nAnd then one year the circus closed, the tents were packed away\r\nAnd he was sold to an amusement park on Massachusetts Bay\r\nHe was sold for next to nothing and they packed him in the van\r\nThey thought they'd bought a dummy but they'd really bought a man.\r\n\r\nHe was sprayed a special color to help him look a fright\r\nAnd they hung him from a gallows 'neath an ultra-violet light\r\nHe hung there in a spookhouse for many, many years\r\nAs youthful faces passed him by in tiny railroad cars\r\n\r\nUntil one fine and fateful day in 1976\r\nHe fell down from the gallows when the hangman's noose unhitched\r\nHis arm broke at the shoulder as he clattered to the floor\r\nAnd the man who went to fix him was stunned by what he saw\r\n\r\nAnd the teenage boys did holler, and the teenage girls did faint\r\nWhen they saw the bone protruding from the varnish and the paint\r\nA coroner came to serve him and ran a slew of tests\r\nthey found out who he was, in time, and laid his soul to rest\r\n\r\nA hundred hears have come and gone since he spoke his final words\r\nI'm not afraid to die and leave behind this rotten world\r\nSo go and pull the lever hangman, now my race on Earth is run\r\nAnd he thought his life was ended but it had only just begun\r","plain_text":"#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#\n#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##\n\n\nAbout a famous cowboy outlaw who lived a hundred years ago.\n\n\n\nHe was sitting propped up in a chair just after he was hanged\nAnd they photographed his body as a distant churchbell rang.\nA circus man was waiting with fifty dollars in his coat\nAnd he bought the cowboy outlaw so he could have him in his show.\n\nAnd very soon he was embalmed and toured from town to town\nPeople paid to see the outlaw that they'd heard so much about\nHe stood before them with a pistol against a painted scene\nThe greatest cowboy outlaw that the world had ever seen\n\nBut in time he was forgotten and no one knew his name\nAnd when he began to fall apart they took his booth away\nThey painted him with varnish and put a crown upon his head\nCome and see the king of Egypt said the sign out front instead\n\nAnd then one year the circus closed, the tents were packed away\nAnd he was sold to an amusement park on Massachusetts Bay\nHe was sold for next to nothing and they packed him in the van\nThey thought they'd bought a dummy but they'd really bought a man.\n\nHe was sprayed a special color to help him look a fright\nAnd they hung him from a gallows 'neath an ultra-violet light\nHe hung there in a spookhouse for many, many years\nAs youthful faces passed him by in tiny railroad cars\n\nUntil one fine and fateful day in 1976\nHe fell down from the gallows when the hangman's noose unhitched\nHis arm broke at the shoulder as he clattered to the floor\nAnd the man who went to fix him was stunned by what he saw\n\nAnd the teenage boys did holler, and the teenage girls did faint\nWhen they saw the bone protruding from the varnish and the paint\nA coroner came to serve him and ran a slew of tests\nthey found out who he was, in time, and laid his soul to rest\n\nA hundred hears have come and gone since he spoke his final words\nI'm not afraid to die and leave behind this rotten world\nSo go and pull the lever hangman, now my race on Earth is run\nAnd he thought his life was ended but it had only just begun","chords":["G#m","E","C#m","F#","D#m","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}