Standard (EADGBE)

x2

Rode hard and put up wet

I aimed down, but I can't get up yeah

It's a long ride back to the way I want to feel

Sundown across the plain

I've been sore before, I'll be sore again

No place to hide to keep from running

Laid down in a cottonwood hallow

I left the trail, no man could follow

Is it safe to rest my head again till morning?

Cracked throat and my canteen's dry

And rain don't fall from an empty sky

So I'll whisper Hail Marys till the sun comes up

 Now don't tell me that part of the story when

 The cowboy falls in love

 When it's raining in his pistol

 And his saddle, and the stars above

 When the candle's burnin' down

 And when midnight comes around

 Now all the best that we can hope for

 Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground

Rode hard and come down tired

Stripped from the saddle when the eye of the fire

And deep in dreams of women in clean water

And I did before what I'll do again

So forgive me father if I have sinned

But the old wood cracks, before it bends

 Now don't tell me that part of the story when

 The cowboy falls in love

 When it's raining in his pistol

 And his saddle, and the stars above

 When the candle's burnin down

 And when midnight comes around

 Now all the best that we can hope for

 Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground

Solo

 Now don't tell me that part of the story when

 The cowboy falls in love

 When it's raining in his pistol

 And his saddle, and the stars above

 When the candle's burnin down

 And when midnight comes around

 Now all the best that we can hope for

 Is to be laughing when we finally hit yeah

 When the candle's burnin down

 And when midnight comes around

 Now all the best that we can hope for

 Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground