Monster On Your Back

Em A G
Em A G


[Verse 1]

Listen up
   Em
I've rode this mountain seventy 
years I've been alive
  Em
Choked on rocks and rattlesnakes a 
wonder I've survived
     A                       Em
Don't think I haven't had a bronc 
like you try me
   G                            
Ev'rytime he thinks a monster is 
    A                 B7
hidin' 'round a tree


[Chorus 1]
  Em
Well the monster's on your back son 
better try to understand
      A                            
The cowboy that you're fightin' now
        Em
 was born to this here land

One day you'll earn your scars and 
all the fearlessness you lack
  G                              
Don't worry 'bout the things that 
      A       B7
you can't see
                       Em
The monster's on your back

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[Verse 2]

Now hear this
    Em
I've rode through howlin' hell and 
wind and snow and rain

I am oblivious to misery and pain
      A                           
That iron in your gizzard it will 
Em
never go away
    G                           A
So long as you got work to do today


[Chorus 2]
    Em
And there's a monster on your back 
son get your guts up off the trail
    A                    Em
We got a job to do I promise we 
won't fail

One day you'll earn your scars and 
all the fearlessness you lack
   G                             
Don't worry 'bout the that ornery 
  A          B7
Charlais bull
                       Em
The monster's on your back


[Bridge]
      A                          
You think that if you buck me off 
                     Em
that I won't get back on
       G                   A      
You could stomp me in the ground 
           Em
and I'll be gone
      A                          
You think that this old man ain't 
              G
tough like he once used to be
                  A              
Try me one more time and you will 
  B7
see


[Final Chorus]
           Em
There's a monster on your back son 
better start to understand
       A                           
The cowboy that you're fightin' now
                    Em
 was born to this here land

One day you'll earn your scars and 
all the fearlessness you lack
  G                                
'Til then you're gonna have to 
      A  B7
trust in me
                        Em
The monster's on your back

[Otro]
Em A G
Em A G
                        Em
There's a monster on your back