The Last Cowboy Song - The Highwaymen
|[Chorus] (all together)
|This [D]is the last cowboy song
|The end of a hundred year [G]waltz
|The [A]voices sound sad as they're singing along
|Another piece of America is [D]lost
[Verse 1](Waylon Jennings)
He [D]rides the feed lots,works in a market
On weekend selling tobacco and [A]beer
He dreams of tommorrow surrounded by fences
But he'll dream tonight of when fences weren't [D]here
[Verse 2](Kris Kristofferson)
He [D]blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark
And eyeball to eyeball old Wyatt backed [A]down
He stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas
And rode with the Seventh when Custer went [D]down
|[Chorus]
|This [D]is the last cowboy song
|The end of a hundred year [G]waltz
|The [A]voices sound sad as they're singing along
|Another piece of America is [D]lost
[Verse 3](Willie Nelson)
Rem[D]ington showed us how he looked on canvas
And Louis Lamour told us his [A]tale
Me and Johnny and Waylon and Kris sing about him
And wish to God we could have ridden his [D]trail
[Verse 4](spoken-Johnny Cash) and the three others sing the chorus.
The [D]old chisom trail is covered in concrete
They truck it to market in fifty foot [G]rigs
They [A]roll by his graveside and don't even notice
Like living and dieing was all he ever [D]did
|[Chorus]
|This [D]is the last cowboy song
|The end of a hundred year [G]waltz
|The [A]voices sound sad as they're singing along
|Another piece of America is [D]lost