Song For Ian Tyson

Capo 1 Intro: G/D/G G G C G Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more D They’ve been singing to the wind C G And their throats are sore G C G And every love they rode away from makes them walk the floor D C G Them old cowboys don’t sing too much no more. Ooh-ooh-oooh. G Like an old wolf in a leg trap C G They’ll stand up fierce when you come D C G They want to be counted but their time hasn’t come G C G Just an old man drowning in a ten gallon hat D G Like an old wolf caught in a leg trap [Refrão] C D G D C Dry and dusty dry and dusty whiskey makes the guitar rusty G D But soothes the voice like honey for a while C D C D Raise a glass to the cowboy friend who’s like we’ll never see again C D G Whos songs run on like water for all time. Ooh-oo-oooh. G C G Way out on the prairie the cowboy wrote his songs D C G Long have grown the grasses round the spring where he sat long Who’s crystal shattered fettered souls C G D G Of all who listened long and the cowboy strummed in time along Chorus (repeat last line Chorus end on C) then G D C G ’