Verse
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Come hear the story of Bart McGee,
A
Inyo County deputy 1873
G D Bm
Chavez gang was running wild, raising hell
D A D
Bart tracked 'em but things did not go well
Bm D
Them bandits circled 'round and they caught him unaware
Bm A
Took him to their hideout, tied him to a chair
Bm D
They spent the night talking 'bout the things they could do
A D
To Bart McGee before they got through
Bm D
Maybe they would skin him or drag him from a horse
Bm A
Maybe they would hang him, they might shoot him of course
Bm D
Bart just sat there as if he hadn't heard,
A D
Through it all he never said a word
[Verse 2]
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Yeah this was desert country, all sagebrush and wind
A
Beyond the Saline Valley, where hopes run mighty thin
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Them bandits drank their whiskey and just outside the door
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Was a bronco mule they'd stole the day before.
Bm D
Them bandits roped that mule and they tied to the shack
Bm A
Stripped ol' Bart naked and they stuck him on its back
Bm D
And they turned him around 'til he was pointed East
A D
And they tied his legs together underneath
Bm D
They untied that mule and they slapped it on the rear
Bm A
It went crackin' through the sagebrush like a wild deer
Bm D
They kept Bart's horse, his saddle and his guns
A D
And they figure Bart McGee's days were done.
[Verse 3]
D G D
Well that mule tried to buck him off, and through the choya danced
A
Bart knew that stayin' with him, was his only chance
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Ol' Bart had fought the Paiute and he'd killed a grizzly bear
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And he could ride anything with hair
Bm D
Well the sun burnt his naked butt and the wind chapped him dry
Bm A
And he broiled like bacon, underneath that desert sky
Bm D
He'd slap that mule upside the head to turn him left or right
A D
It was handlin' good when the moon come up that night
Bm D
He made fifty miles, it ended none too soon
Bm A
He topped the hill at Cerro Gordo that next afternoon
Bm D
The drunks outside the Gem Saloon could not believe their eyes
A D
When a naked man on a mule trotted by.
[Verse 4]
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We all asked what happened, Bart never said a word
A
He yanked out the cactus thorns, put ointment on his burns.
G D Bm
And he bought a horse and rifle and set out on his way
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But what he meant to do he wouldn't say
Bm D
B week went by without a word and we all feared the worst
Bm A
Had them bandits got him, had he died of thirst?
Bm D
Finally he come ridin' back leadin' his old horse
A D
And he also had his hat and guns of course
Bm D
And the robbin' and killin' all came to an end.
Bm A
Not one of that Chavez gang was ever seen again.
Bm D
We asked Bart about it, and when we'd asked enough
A D
He said "I just went back and got my stuff"
[Refrain]
D G D
Come hear the story of Bart McGee
A
Inyo County deputy 1873
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And you know he kept that mule for the rest of its life
D A D
And he treated it better than some men treat their wives
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