My Friend Jim Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]My [G]pal[D] wa[G]s a
straight [C]young [G]cowboy
Hon[C]est and upright and [G]square
But he [C]turned to a gunman and [G]a gambler
And a bad woman took [D]him there
Quick[G]er and [C]surer in [G]gunplay
Till his [C]heart and his body lay [G]dead
When old [C]Carol insulted her pic[G]ture,
Jim [D]filled him full of [G]laughter.[D][G]
All night [C]long we [G]trailed him
through [C]Mesquite and Chapar[G]ral,
And I [C]couldn't help but
think of that [G]wo man
as I saw him pitch and [D]fall.
If [G]she'd been the pal [C]that [G]she should have,
He [C]might have been raising a [G]son,
Instead [C]of out there on the [G]prairie,
[D]To die by a ranger's [G]gun.[D][G][C][G][C][G]
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Now death's slow sting [C]did not [G]trouble
As the [C]light in his eyes grew dim
[G]But whe[C]re we were putting his
[G]body was all that were a [D]gem
And [G]as [C]we all grouped [G]around him,
[C]the blood from his wounds flowed [G]red
He lif[C]ted his head on his [G]elbow,
then he [D]whispered to me and [G]said
Bury me out [C]on the [G]prairie
So the [C]coyotes can howl on my [G]grave
[C]Don't leave me here in [G]the badlands
From the varmints my bones [C]flee [D]safe
[G]Wrap me up [C]in my [G]blanket
Then [C]bury me deep in the [G]ground
And [C]cover my grave all [G]over
With [D]boulders huge and [G]round[D][G][D][G]
So we buried him out [C]on [G]the prairie,
and the [C]coyotes still howl o 'er his [G]grave.
But his [C]soul is now rest[G]ing
from the unkind touch she [D]gave.
There's [G]many a lone[C]some [G]cowboy
who'll [C]ride with that pile of [G]stones.
Then [C]think of some similar wo[G]man
And [D]envy Jim's moldering [G]ball

[Outro 1]
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