Chris LeDoux
I've Got to Be a Rodeo Man
Standard tuning

Intro: D C G D- 2X


D                           
Sometimes this old road
C                                    
Get's so damn lonesome away from home
G                                   D
Ain't no way in sigth head on back
D                        
Nobody knows the way it feels
C                               
Suffer through this living hell
G                                         D
Less you been on down that road yourself

***CHORUS
D                                C
Boy don't ya know I ain't really a bum
G                                    D
I was once a clean cut mothers son
   C                                      G        D-e
And you know down deep inside I still am,
C                            G                    D
But this rodeo life's got it's hold on me
C                        G                     D
And there aint no way to set me free
C                                G             D
You know I've gotta be a rodeo man
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D C G D

D                           
Skinny old dog on the rodeo grounds
C                                    
Scroungin', sniffin', lookin around
G                                   D
In alot of ways I'm just like him
D                        
Cause I'm eating up scraps off the dinner table
C                               
In a greasy cafe' til I'm able
G                                         D
Ride those broncs good enough to win

***CHORUS
D                                C
Boy don't ya know I ain't really a bum
G                                    D
I was once a clean cut mothers son
   C                                      G        D-e
And you know down deep inside I still am,
C                            G                    D
But this rodeo life's got it's hold on me
C                        G                     D
And there aint no way to set me free
C                                G             D
You know I've gotta be a rodeo man
C                                G             D
You know I've gotta be a rodeo man

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Outro D C G D 4X