Don't Fence Me In Chords
by Roy Rogers
Don't Fence Me In by Roy Rogers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7, Am, G, C7 and Dm7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C F C
Wildcat Kelly looking mighty pale,
G7
Was standing by the sheriff's side
C F C
And when the sheriff said "I'm sending you to
jail, "
G7 C
Wildcat raised his head and cried:
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Chorus:
C G7 C Am
Oh give me land, lots of land
C Am
Under starry skies above.
C F G
Don't Fence Me In.
G G7
Let me ride through the wide open
G G7
Country that I love.
G G7 C
Don't Fence Me In.
C C7
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze,
F Dm7
Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees.
C C7
Send me off forever,
F C7 F
but I ask you, please,
C G7 C
Don't Fence Me In.
C7 F
Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old
saddle
C
Underneath the western skies.
C7 F
On my cayuse let me wander over yonder
C
Till I see the mountains rise.
G G7 C
I want to ride to the ridge
C7
where the west commences,
F Dm7
Gaze at the moon until I lose my senses.
C C7
Can't look at hobbles
F C7 F
and I can't stand fen ces.
C G7 C
Don't Fence Me In.
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Wild cat Kelly back again in town,
was sitting by his sweetheart's side,
And when his sweetheart said,
"Come on let's settle down."
Wild Cat raised his head and cried: