verse 1:
D
Stormy throws her head
Em
She don't like the sound of lead
G A D A
Rippin through the sky on a cool clear autumn morn
D
She high trots back home
Em
She can stand to be alone
G A D
She been that way since the day that she was born
G A D G
But I love her anyway and I wouldn trade a single day
Em G A
Of ridin for another day to be alive
G A
The wind in her long black mane
D G
She the only thing that keeps me sane
Em G A
The only way today a cowboy can survive
D
Equine
verse 2:
D
A mind all his own
Em
Bud was as hard as a stone
G A D A
He threw me to the ground a dozen times or more
D
Runnin down the road
Em
Cussin cause I just been throwed
G A D
All the way back to the old brown double barn door
G A D G
But I loved him anyway and I wouldn't trade a single day
Em G A
Of ridin for another day to be alive
G A
The wind in his long gold mane
D G
He was the only thing that kept me sane
Em G A
The only way today that a cowboy can survive
D
Equine
Bridge:
D Bm A
There a fire burnin in me still
D G
And a cold, hard-iron will
Em G A
To get back on no matter how hard I fall
Bm A
And I think of them days sometimes
D G
To ease my troubled mind
Em G A
Ev'retime my back up against a wall
verse 3:
D
He one tired, old paint
Em
He a little less can than can
G A D A
I see the hesitation in his eyes
D
I lift a little saddle on
Em
He kicks him in the sides and they gone
G A D
Lord I can believe how the years Roll by
G A
And how I love that little boy
D G
Ridin high like Gene and Roy
Em G A
Fadin like a hero into that western sun
G A
The wind in his thick gold hair
D G
I close my eyes and for a moment I there
Em G A
The only way today a cowboy can survive
D A
Equine
D A
Equine
G D
Equine