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Date: 2/11/97; 12:05:59 AM
From: cowboy@laughlin.net (ken bennett)
Subject: submission: "All Around Cowboy" by "Chris Ledoux"

ALL AROUND COWBOY
As performed by CHRIS LeDOUX
Written by Jack W. Routh and Len Pollard
Transcribed by Ken Bennett


D                             G            D
Just a broken down cowboy all down on his luck
G                             D
Been through the best of his friends
D                                G           D
On a long lonesome highway in an old pick-up truck
       G           A         D
Cross Texas like a hot dusty wind

D                         G            D
He was All Around Cowboy back in forty-nine
         G                        D
>From the top it's been a long way down
D                                       G           D
Since the whiskey and the women started winning his time
              G        A            D
They rode him high and hard to the ground

     G                     D
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
        G                    D
and the days of his first rodeo
         G                            D
There's something 'bout winnin' that don't last forever
G              D
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
        Em                     A
If the devil lets loose of his soul
                                 D
He'll be the All Around Cowboy again

D                             G             D
So he rolls up a smoke and he sips his Old Crow
           G                       D
Wipes the whiskers that cover his chin
                              G      D
And he grins as he dreams of old rodeos
         G           A      D
He's the All Around Cowboy again

G                          D
He remembers the thrill of being a winner
        G                    D
and the days of his first rodeo
         G                            D
There's something 'bout winnin' that don't last forever
G              D
Maybe tomorrow things will get better
        Em                     A
If the devil lets loose of his soul
                                 D
He'll be the All Around Cowboy again

• all around cowboy of 1964