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Subject: Cowboy From Catarina  by  Max Stalling

COWBOY FROM CATARINA

MAX STALLING

Album: Wide Afternoon

Tab by: Jerry Gant

 

C                              F C

HE WAS BORN ON A BRIGHT DAY IN 1908

C                                                G

MUST HAVE MADE UP HIS MIND THAT HE JUST COULDN‰T WAIT

C                    F            C

THE LABOR CAME ON SO QUICK AND SO FAST

C                            G             C

THEY RUSHED FOR TOWN BUT SHE JUST COULDN‰T LAST

 

HE ENTERED THE WORLD WITH HIS DADDY PLAYING DOCTOR

A HORSE FOR A NURSEMAID, CATTLE MILLING ABOUT

BORN IN THE BACK OF HIS DADDY‰S RANCH WAGON

INTO THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE, THERE WAS NEVER A DOUBT

 

CHORUS

F                      C

HE LOVED THE WIDE OPEN SPACES THE BEST

F                                C                 G

LOOKED EAST EVERY MORNING, EVERY EVENING HE LOOKED WEST

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LOVED HIS COWBOYING WAYS MORE THAN ANYONE KNEW

F           C                   G          C

COWBOY FROM CATARINA, IT‰S OPEN SPACES FOR YOU

F           C                   G          C

COWBOY FROM CATARINA, IT‰S OPEN SPACES FOR YOU

 

SPENT WHOLE DAYS ON HORSEBACK JUST EXPLORING THE COUNTRY

SKIPPED SCHOOL WHEN HE COULD, CAUSE IT KEPT HIM INSIDE

TOOK HIS SUPPER ON THE BACK STEPS SO HE COULD SEE THE SUN SETTING

STOOD UP IN HIS STIRRUPS TO WATCH THE SUNRISE

 

HE‰D RIDE THROUGH THE DRAWS WHERE THE ROCK FACES WHISTLE

SIT THERE AMONGST THE MESQUITE SHRUBS AND THISTLES

HE‰D SMELL THE WHITEBRUSH THAT THE BREEZE CARRIED BY

AND HE‰D THANK THE ANGLES FOR HIS COWBOYIN‰ LIFE

 

CHORUS

 

THE SECOND GREAT WAR CALLED HIM DOWN FROM HIS HORSE

THEY ASKED WILL YOU SERVE AND HE ANSWERED ‹OF COURSEŠ

SO HE RODE A TROOP SHIP ACROSS THE GREAT OCEAN WIDE

AND HE FOUGHT THE AXIS WITH ONE THOUGHT IN MIND

 

GET BACK TO CATARINA, GET BACK TO HIS LIFE

GET BACK TO HIS FENCE LINES AND THE SOUTH TEXAS SKY

GET BACK TO HIS CATTLE, HIS PASTURES, HIS LAND

THE COWBOY FROM CATARINA WORE A VERY DEEP BRAND

 

CHORUS

 

WALK A STRINGá C, B, A TO D CHORD

                        

D                                  G                 D

THE EIGHTIES ROLLED AROUND AND HIS SKIN WAS WRINKLED LEATHER

D                             A

THE HEARING HAD FADED AND HIS BALANCE BEEN BETTER

D                              G                 D

BUT HE COULD STILL SPOT A BUCK THREE FENCE LINES AWAY

D                                 A             D

AND COWBOY FROM CATARINA I WONDER WHERE YOU ARE TODAY

 

ARE YOU DOWN IN A DRAW WHERE THE ROCK FACES WHISTLE

ARE YOU SITTING AMONGST THE MESQUITE SHRUBS AND THISTLE

CAN YOU SMELL THE WHITEBRUSH THAT THE BREEZE CARRIES BY

AND ARE YOU THANKING THE ANGELS FOR YOUR COWBOYIN‰ LIFE

 

G                             D

CAUSE YOU LOVED THE WIDE OPEN SPACES THE BEST

G                              D                        A

YOU LOOKED EAST EVERY MORNING, EVERY EVENING YOU LOOKED WEST

G                                        D     Bm G

YOU LOVED YOUR COWBOYING WAYS MORE THAN ANYONE KNEW

G           D              A               D

COWBOY FROM CATARINA, IT‰S OPEN SPACES FOR YOU

G           D              A

COWBOY FROM CATARINA, IT‰S OPEN SPACES,

A         G         A          D

IT‰S THEM WIDE OPEN SPACES FOR YOU

 

 

 
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