Wild Bull Rider Chords

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Wild Bull Rider by Hoyt Axton is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of A. It uses the chords A, G, D, E and F#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			A 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey 
A 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey 
 
A 
Dixie was a lady and a Rodeo Queen 
A 
Billy was her lover, ah you know what I mean 
G              D            A 
Billy rode the bulls in the big Rodeo 
E               D           A    
Dixie loved her man and she told him so 
E               D                    A 
Dixie loved her man and she told him so 
 
A 
Brought a bad bull to the big Rodeo 
A 
Said He'd killed a man out in New Mexico 
G     D            A 
Dixie said, "Billy please don't go 
      E        D             A 
Don't ride the killer in the Rodeo 
           E               D          A 
You're the only man that I love and I need you so 
A 
Then Billy, he looked at Dixie 
A                       
Looked her right in the eyes 
 
             D                     A  
Said, "I'm a wild bull rider and I love my Rodeo 
    D                                       A 
I'd ride that bull to Hell and back for the money and the show 
      D                                        A                       F# 
If my pappy was a pistol I'm a son of a gun, I ride wild bulls just to have some fun 
        D                                       E  
And the higher they get is a little too low for me 
           D                                       A 
I said the higher they get is a little too low for me 
 
 
Billy rode that killer out of New Mexico 
He rode him cross the Rockies through the rain and the snow 
Rode across the desert to the shining sea 
Rode across the water out to Hawaii 
Rode across the water out to Hawaii 
 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey, 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey, 
 
Billy rode that bull around the world and then 
He rode him out to Jupiter and back again 
Picked up Dixie and away they did fly 
Like a shooting star sailing through the sky 
Like a shooting star sailing through the sky 
 
And I could hear Billy say, he said 
"I'd rather be a lover than a fighter of wars 
Be from Oklahoma than the nebulous stars 
Spent a lot of time in some honky tonk bars 
>From memphis to the China Sea 
>From memphis to the China Sea 
 
Chorus 
 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey, 
Aloha Ha, Aloha Hey 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante