great divide - "cowboy from la"

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Cowboy from LA
The Great Divide
Goin' For Broke
Written by Mike McClure

The Intro is a D chord with a hammer-on and pull-off using Dsus4 and Dsus2
chords

D G A
D
Well he sat all teary eyed in a corner table in a little cafŽ in Texas
G A D
Twenty miles away from the Rio Grande
D G A
D
He was thinkin bout a rendezvous in Mexico with another little senorita
G A G A D
Now that three long years of love have slipped right through his hands

D G A
D
Well they came from California back in August to follow his heart's song
G A G A D
But eighty acres of fenced off nothin' wasn't where she belonged

G A D G
Now she's somewhere in LA with her high-rise penthouse view
G A D
Hangin out with friends he could never stand
G A D G
And all he has is a good-bye letter and her old wedding band
G A G
A
She said there's no way she could stay She could never understand the
life he loved
G A D
The cowboy from LA

D G
A D
He spent the day out ridin 'long the fence line Where they used to walk
together
G A D
He's thinkin bout a night they spent last June
D G A
D
When he held her in his arms under the starlight She told him it was
forever
G A G A D
Now he finds himself still livin under a yesterday's moon

G A D G
Now she's somewhere in LA with her high-rise penthouse view
G A D
Hangin out with friends he could never stand
G A D G
And all he has is a good-bye letter and her old wedding band
G A G
A
She said there's no way she could stay She could never understand the
life he loved
G A D
The cowboy from LA
G A G
A
She said there's no way she could stay She could never understand the
life he loved
G A D
For the cowboy from LA

Questions, additions, corrections, and cussins should be directed to The
Big L ([email protected])

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