Pecos Bill Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C]Pecos Bill was quite a cow[G]boy
down in [C]Texas
And a western super[G]man to say the [C]least
He [F]was the roughest, toughest quitter,
[G]never [C]known to be a [Am]quitter
[C]Cause he never had no [D]fear of [G]man or [C]beast
So yippee -aye [F]-aye -aye, yippee -aye [C]-oh
For the toughest critter
[D]west of the [G]Alam[C]o
Once he roped a raging cyc[D]lone
[G]out of [C]nowhere
Then he straddled it and
[G]settled down with [C]ease
And while that [F]cyclone
bucked and flitted,
[G]Pecos [C]rolled a smoke and lit it
An[G]d he t[C]amed that ornery
[D]wind down [G]to a breeze
[C]So yippee -aye -ay[F]e -aye, yippee -aye -oh[C]
For the toughest critter [D]west of the [G]Alamo
[C]Once there was a drought
[G]that spread all over [C]Texas
So to sunny California [G]he did [C]go
And [F]though the gag is kinda corny
He [G]brought [C]rain from Californi[G]a
That's the [C]way we got
the [D]Gulf of [G]Mexico
[C]Once a band of rustlers
[D]stole a herd [G]of [C]cattle
But [G]they [C]didn't know the [D]herd
[G]they stole was [C]Bill's
And when [F]he caught them
crooked villains
[G]Pecos [C]knocked out all their [G]fillings
That's [C]the reason why
there's [D]gold in [G]them gar hills
[C]So yippee -yi [F]-ay, yi -ay, yippee -yi [C]-oh
For the toughest critter [D]west
of the [G]Alam[C]o
[G]Pecos [C]lost his way
while [D]traveling [G]on the deser[C]t
It was ninety miles across
[G]the burning san[C]d
He knew [F]he'd never reach the border
[G]if he [C]didn't get some wa[G]ter
So he [C]got a stick [D]an d
dug the [G]Rio [C]Grande
While a tribe of painted en[G]gines
did a [C]war [G]dance,[C][G][C]
Pecos started shootin' up
their [G]little [C]game.
He gave them [F]red skin such a shake -up,
that they [C]jumped out from
their [Am]make [G]-up.
That's [C]the way the Painted
[D]Desert got its [C]name.
So yippee -yi [F]-yay, yi -yay, yippee -yi [C]-yo
For the toughest critter [D]west
of the [G]Alam[C]o
While reclining on a [G]cloud
high over [C]Texas
With his gun he made the [G]stars [C]evaporate
Then [F]Pecos saw the stars declining
So he [C]left one brightly shin[G]ing
As the em[C]blem of the [D]Lone Star,
[G]Texas [C]State
So yippee [F]-aye -aye -aye,
yippee -aye [C]-oh
For the toughest critter
[Dm]west of the [G]Alam[C]o