Black Cowboys

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BLACK COWBOYS
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Rainey Williams playground was the Mott Haven streets
C G
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Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths
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Names and photos of young black faces
D G
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Whose death and blood consecrated these places
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Raineys mother said Rainey stay at my side
C G
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For you are my blessing, you are my pride
C G
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Its your love here that keeps my soul alive
D G
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I want you to come home from school and stay inside
G
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Rainey'd do his work and put his books away
C G
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There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday
C G
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Lynette brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range
D G
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The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains
C G
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Summer come and the days grew long
C G
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Rainey always had his mother's smile to depend on
C G
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Along the street of stray bullets he made his way
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To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day
G
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Come the fall, the rain flooded these homes
C G
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Here in Ezekiel's valley of dry bones
C G
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It fell hard and dark to the ground
D G
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It fell without a sound
G
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Lynette took up with a man whose business was the boulevard
C G
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Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard
C G
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In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets he kept
D G
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In the day, behind drawn curtains in Lynette's bedroom he slept
C G
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Then she got lost in the days
C G
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The smile Raney depended on dusted away
C G
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The arms that held him were no more his home
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He lay at night his head pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her
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bones
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In the kitchen Rainey slipped his hand between the pipes
C
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From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills
G
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and stuck it in his coat side
C G
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Stood in the dark at his mother's bed
D G
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Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes
G
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In the twilight Rainey walked to the station on streets of stone
C G
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Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on
C G
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Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept
D G
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As he lay his head back on the seat and slept
G
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He awoke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green
C G
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Corn and cotton and endless nothin' in between
C G
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Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone
D G
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The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone
Well thats the song the way i play it.
im pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really
like your feedback; cold-chisel-man@hotmail.com

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BLACK COWBOYS
Well thats the song the way i play it.
im pretty sure its right, If you read this tab i'd really
like your feedback; cold-chisel-man@hotmail.com

Black Cowboys Chords by Bruce Springsteen

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