Went For A Ride chords by Radney Foster

• Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
               D                           G
He was black as the sky on a moonless night
D                               A
He was real good with the horses, never reined em too tight
D                           G
He rode with the best, hell he rode with me
D                                A
and they got it all wrong in that book of history

Chorus:
G                                    D
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A                                       D
It wasn't schoolboys and ladies it was cowtowns and sin
           G                               D
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
                         A             D
we swore at the devil and went for a ride

Verse 2:
               D                           G
We told some tales he told em best
D                               A
real-life can always use a good stretch
D                           G
but that don't change the things we did
D                                A
cause the truest thing was the life that we lived

Chorus:
G                                    D
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A                                       D
It wasn't schoolboys and Ladies it was cowtowns and sin
           G                               D
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
                         A             D
we swore at the devil and went for a ride

Verse 3:
               D                           G
More than one kind of pain more than one kind of theft
D                               A
and its bitter as the night sweet Jesus wept
D                           G
She stole my heart age stole the fire
D                                A
they stole my prairie when they strung all that wire

Chorus:
G                                   D
It wasn't cowboys and ponies it was horses and men
A                                   D
It wasn't schoolboys and Ladies it was cowtowns and sin
G                                   D
and there was blood on the leather and tears in her eyes
                         A             D
we swore at the devil and went for a ride
D                        A             D
Lord we, swore at the devil and a-went for a ride