Biography:
Old Man Luedecke (Chris Luedecke) is a singer and banjo player living near Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Old Man Luedecke left the big old city of Toronto, met a girl in the Yukon, fell in love, bought a banjo and fell in love again. After a couple of years of love and banjo and the makings of a brilliant performing career in sunny Halifax, he returned to the Yukon with his sweethearts. There he woodshedded. He wrote a ton of songs over the next year and a half.
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Capo on first fret
Intro is G/D/G
G G C G
Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more
D
They’ve been singing to the wind
C G
And their throats are sore
G C G
And every love they rode away from makes them walk the floor
D C G
Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more. Ooh-ooh-oooh.
G
Like an old wolf in a leg trap
C G
They’ll stand up fierce when you come
D C G
They want to be counted but their time hasn’t come
G C G
Just an old man drowning in a ten gallon hat
D G
Like an old wolf caught in a leg trap
Chorus:
C D G D C
Dry and dusty dry and dusty whiskey makes the guitar rusty
G D
But soothes the voice like honey for a while
C D C D
Raise a glass to the cowboy friend who’s like we’ll never see again
C D G
Whos songs run on like water for all time. Ooh-oo-oooh.
G C G
Way out on the prairie the cowboy wrote his songs
D C G
Long have grown the grasses round the spring where he sat long
Who’s crystal shattered fettered souls
C G D G
Of all who listened long and the cowboy strummed in time along
Chorus
(repeat last line chorus end on C) then G/D/C/G
Intro is G/D/G
G G C G
Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more
D
They’ve been singing to the wind
C G
And their throats are sore
G C G
And every love they rode away from makes them walk the floor
D C G
Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more. Ooh-ooh-oooh.
G
Like an old wolf in a leg trap
C G
They’ll stand up fierce when you come
D C G
They want to be counted but their time hasn’t come
G C G
Just an old man drowning in a ten gallon hat
D G
Like an old wolf caught in a leg trap
Chorus:
C D G D C
Dry and dusty dry and dusty whiskey makes the guitar rusty
G D
But soothes the voice like honey for a while
C D C D
Raise a glass to the cowboy friend who’s like we’ll never see again
C D G
Whos songs run on like water for all time. Ooh-oo-oooh.
G C G
Way out on the prairie the cowboy wrote his songs
D C G
Long have grown the grasses round the spring where he sat long
Who’s crystal shattered fettered souls
C G D G
Of all who listened long and the cowboy strummed in time along
Chorus
(repeat last line chorus end on C) then G/D/C/G
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