Northern Cowboy Chords
Northern Cowboy by Dougie Maclean is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, Am and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
G (strike) D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am C
He's got money in his pockets
D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G D
Of all the money he has made
Am C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave
G (strike) D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am C
He's got money in his pockets
D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G D
Of all the money he has made
Am C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave
Verse
G D
There was a time when we were happy
G D
With the simple pleasures that we knew
Am C
And then one day it started raining
D
And a very ugly storm began to brew
G D
It wasn't long before we noticed
G D
That the people had a fever in their eyes
Am C
They were taking all the things they'd been preserving
D
And going out and throwing them up into the skies
G (strike) D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am C
He's got money in his pockets
D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G D
Of all the money he has made
Am C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave
Verse
G D
Once the money started moving
G D
The fever spread from door to door
Am C
And all the young girls started selling
D
Something they had never sold before
G D
The people spun around in circles
G D
Confusion cluttering their minds
Am C
Their lives were being drawn from them
D
By bastards of a hundred different kinds
G (strike) D
Look here comes a northern cowboy
G D
He just rode in from Aberdeen
Am C
He's got money in his pockets
D
And blisters like you've never ever seen
G D
Don't let him fool you with the stories
G D
Of all the money he has made
Am C
I've been looking along the north-east coastline
D
And those cowboys have already dug its grave
Verse
G D
So come all ye northern cowboys
G D
Get back down here upon the farm
Am C
Leave the salt wind to the sailors
D
Leave the North Sea to the storm
G D
And one day when it's all over
G D
And you're hanging up your saddles and your guns
Am C
You'll look around this oil-stained country
D
And you'll wish to Christ it never had begun