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