Big Chief Buffalo Nickle
Rick Nelson
Cisco Huston
Chords Tabbed by: Verne Garrison
Banjo Tuned E Key D, Capo 1

I think the video starts out in E, then F#, then G...I have it in D here for my voice...tabbed 
before I found the video...v.g.



   D            G          D
Way out on the wind-swept desert,
  G                        A
Where nature played with no man
   D          G         D
A buffalo found his brother
                             A
Lying baked on the sun-baked sand.
   D         G            D
Said my brother what ails you?
                         A
A sickness made you this way?
G
His brother never said
G
'cause his brother was dead
  D           G            D
He been dead since way last May

   D        G       D
Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
  G                     A
Was a mighty man in his day,
   D      G      D
He never used a sickle
                     A
To clear the bushes away.
  D            G               D
He'd roam around from tent to tent,
                   A
Eat everything in sight
G             D               G    
He loved a squaw, every one he saw
    D          A         D
He loved a new one every night.

  D             G          D
Way out on the wind-swept desert
   G                  A
I heard a big Indian noise,
   D               G                 D
I left my tent 'cause I knew what it meant
                     A
What I never known before.
   D             G             D
It was gone when I reached St. Pete
                       A
My legs were certainly sore,
G                      D
I musta lost 50 pounds on
G                  D
that hot desert ground
     D         A        D
And I'd lose that many more.

 D         G        D
Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
  G                     A
Was a mighty man in his day,  
 D         G       D
He never used a sickle
                     A
To clear the bushes away.
  D         G               D
He'd roam around from tent to tent
                    A
Eat everything in sight,
  G          D        G         D
He loved a squaw, every one he saw,
                    A       D
He loved a new one every night.