The Wire And The Rail - Red Steagall Chords
Chords: D, E, A, F#m, E7, B7
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Genre: country, folk, singer-songwriter
Key A no capo
[Intro]
D E A D E A
[Verse]
A D
The call came for young fearless riders
E A
Those that had made it safely home from war
D
While we were fighting yanks up in Shiloh
E A
Them longhorns were growing by the score
F#m E E7
And now the north was hungry
B7 E E7
For beef and leather they would pay
A D
And when the rail road reached Kansas
E A
Our job was to drive them up that way
[Chorus]
D E A
So raise a glass to the drovers
D B7 E E7
Who braved the dangers of the trail
D E A D
They faded into history
E A
With the coming of the wire and the rail
[Verse]
D
We gathered them down by San Antone
E A
And headed up the Chisum Trail in May
D
Two thousand head wild as mule deer
E A
Lined out like a ribbon on the planes
F#m E
The rivers rose to meet us
B7 E E7
We battled the heat and the rain
A D
We lost a man when they ran one night
E A
And buried him in a shallow grave
[Chorus]
D E A
So raise a glass to the drovers
D B7 E E7
Who braved the dangers of the trail
D E A D
They faded into history
E A
With the coming of the wire and the rail
[Solo]
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