Lights Of Cheyenne by James McMurtry, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Lights Of Cheyenne

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James McMurtry (born March 18, 1962 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a Texas rock/Texas Country singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader and occasional actor (Daisy Miller, Lonesome Dove). He performs as James McMurtry And The Heartless Bastards with veteran bandmates and rhythm section Darren Hess and Ronnie Johnson (not to be confused with the Cincinnati, OH, band Heartless Bastards).

The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a steady diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records.

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I HOPE THIS IS CLOSE ENOUGH. I AM HAPPY WITH IT. I COULD NOT FIND ANY VERSIONS
OF THIS SONG ANYWHERE, SO THIS IS WHAT I CAME UP WITH.

CAPO on the second fret

D4= XX0233 G/F#=220033 LIGHTS OF CHEYENNE
Cadd9= X32033 G = 320033 JAMES MCMURTRY
Em7= 022033

VERSE 1

Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Look off down the highway at the glittering lights
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight
Cadd9 D4 Em7
As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains
G Cadd9 D4
All bunched up like pearls on a string
G Cadd9 G
And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at all
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
And out on the horizon the broken stars fall
Cadd9 D4 Em7
Old broken stars they fall down on the land
G Cadd9 D4 G
And get mixed together with the lights of Cheyenne

VERSE 2

Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my back
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
Workin' the counter to take up the slack
Cadd9 D4 Em7
Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low
G Cadd9 D4
You ain't worked a week since July
G Cadd9 G
You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
But you don't have the nature for that kind of work
Cadd9 D4 Em7
You might get hired on But you won't make a hand
G Cadd9 D4 G
And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne

CHORUS

D4
You stand in the sky
Cadd9 G
with your feet on the ground
D4 Cadd9
Never suspectin' a thing
D4
But if the sky were to
Cadd9 G
move you might never be found
Em7 G/F# Cadd9
Never be heard from again

VERSE 3

Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
We go on good behavior when our youngest comes home
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long
Cadd9 D4 Em7
And that oldest still fights me like she was 18
G Cadd9 D4
Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile ago
G Cadd9 G
And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sight
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night
Cadd9 D4 Em7
And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan
G Cadd9 D4 G
Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne

(little solo part goes here)

VERSE 4

Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
And you've kept all that meanness inside you so long
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong
Cadd9 D4 Em7
Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law
G Cadd9 D4
I look at you right, or I don't look at all
G Cadd9 G
Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break
Cadd9 D4 Em7
With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand
G Cadd9 D4 G
And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne

- chorus-

VERSE 5

Cadd9 G Cadd9 G
Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
Come opening weekend you won't see a one
Cadd9 D4 Em7
They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know
G Cadd9 D4
But now they're up to the fence in the early dawn
G Cadd9 G
And it's warming up nicely for this time of year
Cadd9 G Em7 D4
The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear
Cadd9 D4 Em7
And I don't have it in me to make one more stand
G Cadd9 D4 G
Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne