WILLIE
Robert Earl Keen

Capo 4

(G) (Am) (C) (D) (G)


(G) Hanging on the wall
Just like a (Am) thousand times you been there
a (C) picture of a (D) field of dande(G)lions
(G) and a young stud colt a-followin’
some ol’ (Am) cowboy on a brood mare
(C) Bound to make it (D) home by dinner (G) time

There’s a thunder head a-comin
from the west and he’s sure thinkin’
This rain would do this dusty dirt some good
but it ain’t a cowboy's weather
so he nudges his old faithful
and turns around to call out to the stud


Chorus:

(G) Come on (Am) Willie
There’s a (G) dark cloud comin’ yonder
The (C) devil beats his (D) wife with a silver (G) chain
(G) Come on (Am) Willie
Boy, (G) can’t you hear the thunder
Your (C) ma and me don’t (D) travel well in (G) rain


It ain’t nothing much to look at
Just a print I got from grandma
A real west river cowgirl in her day
and sometimes I need religion
since the old girl’s gone before me
and that’s when I can hear the cowboy say

Chorus

And now the western feelin’
has become another side show
a-sellin’ out the bygone days gone by
and we never know it’s rainin’
We can’t hear it for our thunder
We can’t see it for our clouds up in the sky


Chorus
Your (C) ma and me don’t (D) travel well in (C) rain (G)