James Mcmurtry – Lights Of Cheyenne chords

Chords:
Transpose:
I HOPE THIS IS CLOSE ENOUGH.  I AM HAPPY WITH IT.  I COULD NOT FIND ANY VERSIONS 
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 D4 Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight
Cadd9 D4 Em7 As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 And out on the horizon the broken stars fall
Cadd9 D4 Em7 Old broken stars they fall down on the land
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 Workin' the counter to take up the slack
Cadd9 D4 Em7 Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low
G Cadd9 D4 You ain't worked a week since July
G Cadd9 G You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first
Cadd9 G Em7 D4 But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
Cadd9 D4 Em7 You might get hired on But you won't make a hand
G Cadd9 D4 G And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne
CHORUS
D4 You stand in the sky
Cadd9 G with your feet on the ground
D4 Cadd9 Never suspectin' a thing
D4 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 D4 She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long
Cadd9 D4 Em7 And that oldest still fights me like she was 18
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night
Cadd9 D4 Em7 And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong
Cadd9 D4 Em7 Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break
Cadd9 D4 Em7 With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 Come opening weekend you won't see a one
Cadd9 D4 Em7 They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know
G Cadd9 D4 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 D4 The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear
Cadd9 D4 Em7 And I don't have it in me to make one more stand
G Cadd9 D4 G Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne
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