Pecos bill Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Yippee!
[D]Fic[A]us [D]Bill was quite a cowboy[A]
down in [D]Texas
And a western superman [A]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 [G]-aye -aye, yippee -aye [D]-oh
For the toughest critter
west of the [A]Alam[D]o
Once he wrote the raging cyclone
[A]out of [D]nowhere
Then he straddled it and
settled down [A]with [D]ease
And while that [G]cyclone
bucked and flitted
Hiccus [D]rolled a -smoking lidded
And he tamed that ornery
wind down [A]to a [D]breeze
So if you're [G]in California,
[D]you're [A]in Tex[D]as
Once there was a drought
that spread all [A]over [D]Texas
So to sunny Cali[A]fornia he did go,
[D]and though the gag[G] is kind of corny,
he brought [D]rain from California,
that's the way we got the [A]Gulf of [D]Mexico.
So yippee [G]-aye -aye, yippee -aye [D]-oh,
for the toughest critter [A]west of the Alam[D]o.
[G]Now once a ban[D]d of rustlers
stole [G]a herd of [C]cattle,
but they didn't [G]know the herd they
stole [C]was Bill's.
And when he [F]caught
them crooked Bill's,
Pecos [D]knocked out all their fillings.
[G]That's the [C]reason [G]why there's
gold in them there hills.
[C]So yippee -aye -ay[F]e,
yippee [C]-aye -oh,
for the toughest critter west of the Alamo.
Oh, [G]oh, Faker's [Cm]lost his way
while [G]traveling on [Gm]the d[Cm]esert
Water
It was ninety miles across [G]the
burning [Bb]sand[Cm]
Water
He knew [G]he'd [F]never
reach [C]the [F]border
Wa[C]ter
[G]If he didn't [Cm]get some water
[G]Water
So [C]he got a stick and [G]dug a real grand
[C]By Leola
[F]Oh, [C]Leola
Oh, [G]Leola
[C]Oh, Leola
While a tribe of [G]painted Indians
did a war dance
Pekka started shooting up their little gang
He gave them red skin
such a shake up
That they jumped out of their
make -up
That's the way the painted
desert got its [Cm]name
[C]So yippee -aye [F]-aye -aye, yippee -aye [C]-oh
Her the toughest critter
[G]west of the Alam[C]o
While reclining on a [G]cloud
high over [C]Texas
With his guns he [G]made
the 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, yippee [C]-aye -oh
As the emblem of the [G]Lone Star,
[Abdim]Texas Sta[C]te!