Cypress Hills And The Big Country - Colter Wall Chords

Chords: C, G, Am, Am/G, F, Em, Dm, G7

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Genre: folk, country, blues

Colter is usually alternating the bass with the thumb.

So the picking pattern would be: Pick root, down, pick 5th, up, down, up

[Intro]

C C C C

C C G G

G G Am Am

C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm

G G C C C C

[Verse 1]

C
You can see the bear paws

G
The old man on his back

G7
Prickly pears, a blue moon

Am
In the short and native grass

C Cadd2/B Am
There's a bunch of empty beer cans

Am/G F Em Dm
In an old, loose mineral sack

G C
Give you some idea of where you're at

[Verse 2]

C G
Buck brush and sage as far as you can see

G7
It's the south slopes of the hills

Am
Turns to pine and poplar trees

C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm
Cattle all a-grazing up and down a big coulee

G
Under Charlie Russell skies

C
Like a blue and purple sea

[Chorus]

Am

Cypress Hills

G
And the big country below

Am
Where life is still

G G7
And a man can be alone

C Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath

Am Am/G F Em Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time

G C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

[Solo]

C C G G

G7 G7 Am Am

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