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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