Verse
C
He rides a feed lot and clerks in a market
G
On weekends selling tobacco and beer
G
His dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences
C
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't here
C
He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
G
And eyeball to eyeball Ol' Wyatt backed down
G
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
C
And rode with the Seventh when Custer went down
[Chorus]
C
This is the last cowboy song
F
The end of a hundred year waltz
G
Voices sound sad as they're singing along
C
Another piece of America's lost
[Verse 2]
C
Remington showed us how he looked on canvas
G
And Louis L'Amour has told us his tale
G
And Willie and Waylon and me sing about him
C
And wish to God we could have ridden his trail
[Bridge]
C
The Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete now
F
And they truck 'em to market in fifty foot rigs
G
They just blow by his market never slowing to reason
C
Like living and dying was all he did
[Chorus]
C
This is the last cowboy song
F
The end of a hundred year waltz
G
Voices sound sad as they're singing along
C
Another piece of America's lost
[Outro]
C F C
This is the last cowboy song