Prairie Fire Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Am]
While drivin' a herd of cattle
out in [Dm]old Nebraska way
Headin' east at [Am]Broken [E]Bow
on a hot September [Am]day
Tryin' to get to Omaha we
[Dm]hoped to find a buyer
We never counted [Am]in the odds of
a [E]western prairie fire
[Am]A hot south wind was blowin' and the

[Verse 2]
[Dm]
air was [Am]gettin' dry
Somethin' [Dm]far away [Am]was spellin'
[E]trouble in the [Am]sky
Comin' closer was a sound that
[Dm]topped the devil's [Am]choir
[Dm]Then we knew we had to [Am]race
a [E]raging prairie [Am]fire

[Verse 3]
[Am]
When all at once a [G]flame
is seen a-lickin' [F]at at the [E]sky
And [Am]every heart has [G]quickened
and there's [F]fear in every [E]eye
We'd [Am]just one chance to get away
[E]for [Dm]there's no place to [Am]hide
[E]Gotta [Dm]reach the river [Am]Platte one inch
[E]deep and one mile [Am]wide

[Verse 4]
The herd is gettin' tired [Dm]but we've
got no time to [Am]rest
I [Dm]try to clear the [Am]red dust that is
[E]gatherin' in my chest
From [Am]ridin' tail on a thousand
head with the [Dm]weather gettin' dry
[Am]The [Dm]black cloud [Am]in the west is warning,
[E]"Ride, ride, [Am]ride"

[Verse 5]
[Am]
The roarin' heat is [G]closer
ashes [F]fallin' by our [E]side
And [Am]every beast and [G]bird is fleein'
[F]with its warnin' [E]cry
We've got to [Am]reach the river
but it's [Dm]still ten miles or [Am]more
And [Dm]close behind us [Am]we can
hear that [E]wild infernal [Am]roar

[Verse 6]
[Am]
But fate had other plans,
for we [Dm]lost that fatal [Am]race
[E]We [Dm]lost for [E]neither [Am]man nor beast
could [E]long keep up the pace
[Am]The mighty Platte subdued its
rage but [Dm]none were there to rest
We did our best to [Am]get away
but only [E]I am [Am]left
Now on the blackened [G]prairie, far

[Verse 7]
[F]
as the eye can [E]see
The grim re[Am]mains are [G]there to
show that [F]God rules you and [E]me
Just one he [Am]left to tell the tale just
[Dm]one was his de[Am]sire
We [Dm]lost our herd and [Am]thirty
men to a [E]raging prairie [Am]fire