Western Movies Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays450

Western Movies by The Olympics is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G7 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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  			Western Movies:The Olympics. 
#8 in 1958. 

#1. 
C 
To save my soul I can't get a date,  

baby's got it tuned on channel eight.  

Now, Wyatt Earp and the big Cheyenne  
        G7 
they're comin' thru the T.V. shootin' up the land.  

Chorus: 
     C 
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.  

My baby loves the Western movies. 
G7  
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up, pow.  
    C 
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.  

#2. 
C 
I call my baby on the telephone, 

to tell her half my head was gone. 

I just got hit by a great big brick, 
           G7 
she says, 'Thanks for reminding me  

about Maverick.' 

Chorus: 
     C 
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.  

My baby loves the Western movies. 
G7  
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up, pow.  
    C 
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.  

#3. 
              F 
Well, there's Jeremy Roller and Old Cochise, 
  
Jim Hardy, Jim Bowie and Sugarfoot. 
  
They all 'have gun will travel,' 
G7                                C 
give me back my boots and saddle, uh huh.  

#4. 
C 
Here's the story of the certain Wagon Train Mccord... 

A broken arrow has broken my heart.  

A Jefferson Thomas with Bat Masterson, 
  G7 
unties my baby and the fight was won.  

Chorus: 
     C 
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.  

My baby loves the Western movies. 
G7  
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up, pow.  
    C 
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.  


A fifties smash from Kraziekhat. 
    	

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