Lights of Cheyenne Chords & Lyrics by James McMurtry
Lights of Cheyenne
guitar chords lyrics
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 E 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 your 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
