{"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":87262,"song":"Claude Dallas","artist":"Ian Tyson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11550465-claude-dallas-chords-by-ian-tyson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/87262?type=chord","rating":4.75629,"votes":26,"content":"Capo 2nd Fret\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n1. In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere rivers run and disappear And the Mustang still lives free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy the Devil's wash and the coyote hole In the wild Owyee Range[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSomewhere in the sage tonight The wind calls out his name Aye Aye Aye[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n2. Come gather round me buckaroos And a story I will tell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBout the fugitive Claude Dallas Who just broke out of jail[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYou might think this tale is history From before the West was won[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut the events that I'll describe took place in 1981[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n3. He was born out in Virginia Left home when school was through[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn the deserts of Nevada He became a buckaroo[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe learned the ways of cattle He learned to sit a horse[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he always packed a pistol And he practiced deadly force[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen Claude he became a trapper He dreamed of the bygone days[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nHe studied bobcat logic In the wild and silent ways[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn the bloody runs near paradise In the monitors down south[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTrapping cats and coyotes Living hand and mouth Aye Aye Aye[/tab]\r\n\r\n4.\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThen Claude took to living all alone Out many miles from town[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nA friend Jim Stevens brought supplies And he stayed to hang around[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat day two wardens Pogue and Elms Drove in to check Claude out[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey were seeking violations And to see what Claude's about[/tab]\r\n\r\n5.\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow Claude he had hung some venison He had a bobcat pelt or two[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nPogue claimed they were out of season He said \"Dallas you're all thru.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut Dallas would not leave his camp He refused to go to town[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAs the wind howled through the bull camp They stared each other down[/tab]\r\n\r\n6.\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt's hard to say what happened next Perhaps we'll never know[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThey were going to take Claude into jail And he vowed he'd never go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJim Stevens heard the gunfire And when he turned around[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBill Pogue was fallin' backwards, Conley Elms he fell face down Aye Aye Aye[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJim Stevens walked on over There was a gun near Bill Pogue's hand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt?s hard to say who?d drawn his first But Claude had made his stand[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nClaude said, ?I?m justified Jim? They were gonna gun me down,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd a man's got a right to hang some meat.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen he?s livin? this far from town.[/tab]\r\n\r\n7.\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIt took 18 men and 15 months To finally run Claude down[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIn the sage outside paradise They drove him to the ground[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nConvicted up in Idaho Manslaughter by decree[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThirty years at maximum But soon Claude would break free[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's two sides to this story There may be no right or wrong[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThere may be no right or wrong The lawmen and the renegade[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHave graced a thousand songs The story is an old one[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch] [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nConclusion's hard to draw But Claude's out in the sage tonight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nHe may be the last outlaw Aye Aye Aye[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Repeat 1st verse] (2/3 speed)\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n1.In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhere rivers run and disappear And the Mustang still lives free[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy the Devil's wash and the coyote hole In the wild Owyee Range[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Dm[/ch] [ch]F[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSomewhere in the sage tonight The wind calls out his name Aye Aye Aye[/tab]","plain_text":"Capo 2nd Fret\n\n\n[Intro]\nAm G Dm F\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n4.\n\n\n\n\n\n5.\n\n\n\n\n\n6.\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7.\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Repeat 1st verse] (2/3 speed)","chords":["Am","G","Dm","F","C","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"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]}}}