Lights Of Cheyenne chords by James Mcmurtry

OF THIS SONG ANYWHERE, SO THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH.

   CAPO on the second fret

   D4=   XX0233    G/f#=220033        LIGHTS OF CHEYENNE
   Cadd9=  X32033    G = 320033         JAMES MCMURTRY
   Em7=   022033

        VERSE 1

Cadd9   G              Cadd9   G
    Look off down the highway at the glittering lights
Cadd9   G      E           Dsus4
    Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight
        Cadd9          Dsus4     Em7
    As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains
      G         Cadd9      Dsus4
    All bunched up like pearls on a string
          G              Cadd9     G
    And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at all
Cadd9    G     Em7            Dsus4
    And out on the horizon the broken stars fall
Cadd9               Dsus4      Em7
    Old broken stars they fall down on the land
      G    Cadd9       Dsus4      G
    And get mixed together with the lights of Cheyenne

        VERSE 2

Cadd9      G             Cadd9   G
    Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my back
Cadd9  G      Em7          Dsus4
    Workin' the counter to take up the slack
         Cadd9           Dsus4        Em7
    Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low
      G       Cadd9      Dsus4
    You ain't worked a week since July
          G         Cadd9   G
    You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first
Cadd9     G       Em7           Dsus4
    But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
     Cadd9            Dsus4       Em7
    You might get hired on But you won't make a hand
        G       Cadd9      Dsus4      G
    And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne

        CHORUS

         Dsus4
       You stand in the sky
            Cadd9    G
       with your feet on the ground
       Dsus4         Cadd9
       Never suspectin' a thing
            Dsus4
       But if the sky were to
              Cadd9  G
       move you might never be found
       Em7   G/f#    Cadd9
       Never be heard from again

          VERSE 3

Cadd9   G              Cadd9     G
    We go on good behavior when our youngest comes home
Cadd9   G       Em7             Dsus4
    She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long
        Cadd9            Dsus4    Em7
    And that oldest still fights me like she was 18
       G        Cadd9      Dsus4
    Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile ago
            G           Cadd9    G
    And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sight
Cadd9   G        Em7          Dsus4
    All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night
           Cadd9        Dsus4      Em7
    And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan
    G     Cadd9    Dsus4      G
    Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne

         (little solo part goes here)

         VERSE 4

Cadd9       G           Cadd9     G
    And you've kept all that meanness inside you so long
Cadd9    G      Em7               Dsus4
    You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong
        Cadd9            Dsus4       Em7
    Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law
     G            Cadd9      Dsus4
    I look at your right, or I don't look at all
         G            Cadd9   G
    Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake
Cadd9  G     Em7           Dsus4
    Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break
      Cadd9            Dsus4      Em7
    With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand
        G     Cadd9    Dsus4      G
    And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne


        - chorus-


         VERSE 5

Cadd9       G          Cadd9     G
    Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun
Cadd9    G          Em7      Dsus4
    Come opening weekend you won't see a one
        Cadd9           Dsus4      Em7
    They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know
        G           Cadd9      Dsus4
    But now they're up to the fence in the early dawn
        G          Cadd9      G
    And it's warming up nicely for this time of year
Cadd9   G        Em7             Dsus4
    The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear
       Cadd9         Dsus4      Em7
    And I don't have it in me to make one more stand
        G     Cadd9     Dsus4      G
    Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne