Pecos Bill Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Yippee!
[D]Fic[A]us [D]Bill was quite a cowboy[A]
down in [D]Texas
And the western [A]su perman to say the [D]least
He was the [G]roughest, toughest critter
Never [D]known to be a quitter
Cause he never had no [A]fear of man or [D]beast
So yippee -aye [G]-aye, yippee [D]-aye -oh
For the toughest critter
[A]west of the Alam[D]o
Once he roped the raging cyclone
[A]out of [D]nowhere,
then he straddled it and
[A]settled down with [D]ease.
And while that [G]cyclone
bucked and flitted,
Pecos [D]rolled a smoke and lit it,
and he tamed that ornery
[A]wind down to a [D]breeze.
So yippee [G]-aye -aye, yippee -aye [D]-oh[A]
[D]Once there was a drought
that [A]spread all over [D]Texas
So to sunny Cali[A]fornia he [D]did go
And though the [G]gag is kinda corny
He brought [D]rain from [Bm]Californi[D]a
That's the way we got the [A]Gulf of Mexico
[D]So yippee -ay[G]e -aye, yippee -ay[D]e -oh
For the toughest critter
[A]west of the Alam[D]o.[G]
Now once a band of rustlers
stole a herd of [C]chattel.
But they didn't [G]know the herd they
stole was bill[C]s.
And when he [F]caught
them crooked billings,
Pecos [C]knocked out all their fillings.
That's the reason [G]why there's
gold in them there hills.
[C]So yippee -aye -ay[F]e,
yippee -aye [C]-oh,
For the toughest critter
[G]west of the Alam[C]o.
Oh, [G]oh, oh, Faker[Cm]s lost his way
While [G]traveling on the [Cm]desert
It was 90 miles across [G]the
burning [Bb]sand[Cm]
He [G]knew he'd [Fm]never [F]reach
[Fm]the [F]bord[C]er
[G]If he didn't [Cm]get some water
[G]So [C]he got a stick and
[G]dug the Rio [C]Grande
By [F]Leola [C]Leola
[G]Leola Leola
[C]While a tribe of [G]painted Indians
did a war dance
Pecos started shootin' up their little game
He gave them red skin
such a shake -up
that they jumped out of their make -up,
that's the way the painted
desert [Cm]got its [C]name
So yippee -aye [F]-aye yippee -aye [C]-oh
Her the toughest critter
[G]west of the Isle of [C]Moe.
While reclining [G]on a
cloud high over [C]Texas,
with his guns he made the
[G]stars evapor[C]ate.
Then Pecos [F]saw them stars declining,
so he [C]left one brightly shining
as the emblem [G]of the Lone Star,
Texas [C]State.
So yippee -aye [F]-aye -aye,
yippee [C]-aye -oh,
as the emblem of the [G]Lone Star,
Texas [Abdim]State.[G][C]
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