Arkansas Dave chords by George Strait

Intro:
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Verse 1:

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He rode up on a winter day

C          G      C
Steam rising off a streak-faced bay

F          C    F
Said, you probably know my name

C         G    C
If you don't it's Arkansas Dave

Verse 2:

  C         G   C
He talked of fifteen years ago

   C       G   C
And how he got the bay he rode

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Said, he killed a man in Oh - i - o

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First man he killed, first horse he stole


Chorus 1:

     F       C    F
It was a long road for Arkansas Dave

  C         G    C
He shot and left him where he lay

      F         C   F
Said, he'd never forget that winter day

C         G      C
He rode off on a streak-faced bay


Verse 4:

C         G     C
I stood up and I shook his hand

   C       G    C
Told no one that I knew this man

 F       C   F
Started thinking of a plan

    C        G     C
'Bout how I'd deal him his last hand


Verse 5:

    C        G  C
Didn't take him long to come unwound

C            G    C
He jumped up and gunned two men down

 F       C     F
Ran outside to leave the town

     C       G   C
But ol' bay was nowhere to be found

--Modulate up to D--


Verse 6:

  D        A   D
I hid out with my forty-four

   D          A      D
And when he walked back through the door

  G         D    G
I shot till I could shoot no more

      D      A    D
And Dave Rudabaugh fell to the floor


Chorus 2:

      G          D    G
It was the end of the road for Arkansas Dave

  D         A    D
I shot and left him where he lay

   G         D   G
I'll never forget that winter day

D         A      D
I rode off on the streak faced bay

     G         D   G
No I'll never forget that winter day

D            A      D
I rode home on daddy's streak faced bay


Outro:
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