Indian Cowboy chords by Townes Van Zandt

Indian Cowboy
By: Townes van Zandt



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If you ever go out to the circus
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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
   C          F
I'll tell you a tale to remember
      C      G7      C
When the white horses leap rings of fire


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It was a cold night in Oklahoma
            G
The show was about to begin
   C          F
The animals they were all restless
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When the star-horse she broke from her pen

     C     G7   C
Well, she was a mare of high spirits
              G
Like a whore on a Saturday night
    C                     F
Just a-kickin' and a-buckin' while the men were a-brushin'
    C   G7      C
The elephants lined on the side


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Now close to the tent sat a lantern
                G
It was dangerously close to the hay
     C            F
That mare headed straight for that lantern
   C    G7       C
Some fool had left there by mistake


   C      G7    C
Then up jumps an Indian Cowboy
                  G
And his lasso he throws through the air
   C          F
Smack-dab in the middle of danger
  C     G7   C
He ropes the runaway mare


    C     G7         C
And the elephants raised up their trumpets
                G
And one of them broke from her chains
  C         F
Stampeded that Indian Cowboy
  C       G7      C
Who just saved the big-top from flames


    C   G7     C
If you ever go out to the circus
                 G
Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
 C         F
Remember that Indian Cowboy
     C      G7      C
When the white horses leap rings of fire