Intro:
Guitar 2
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Headed for Wyoming, in 1882, A woman, a team, and a wagon.
GAm
Gonna make our dreams come true.
FGAm
Settled in the foothills of the big horn mountain slope.
GAm
Life is sweet we lived on the meat, of the deer and the antelope
AmGAm
We cut house logs on the mountain, with the team we hauled 'em down
AmGAm
Peeled 'em and we stacked 'em up, plowed some bottom ground.
FGAm
Traded for some cattle, turned 'em out on the range
AmGAm
The skies were blue and we never knew...How things were gonna change
FGAm
Ole powder river, you're muddy and wide,
FE
How many men have died...upon your shores.
FGAm
When you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side.
FGAm
There's no middle ground in this Johnson Country War.
AmG
Well, the neighbors stopped by yesterday, while I was outside choppin’
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wood.
AmGAm
And they filled me in on the local news, ain't none of it sounded good,
FGAm
Said, they'd been some cattle stealin', by some no count outlaw band.
AmGAm
We'd all been branded rustler's by the big ranchers of this land.
AmGAm
Well it was us against the cattlemen, and the years just made it worse.
AmG
First the drought, then the tough winter, Johnson County had been dealt
Am
a curse,
FGAm
Then their came the story about the two "dry gulch" attacks:
AmGAm
Ranger Jones and John Tisdale both been shot in the back
Verse 3
AmGAm
Then last night at supper time, riders stopped by chance.
AmGAm
They said cattleman and hired guns, just burned the Kaycee Ranch,
FGAm
Two men had died this mornin', shot down in the snow
AmGAm
Now the vigilante army was on the march to Buffalo
AmGAm
Well the county was in an uproar, an every man saddled up to ride
AmGAm
Caught the cattlemen at the TA Ranch, and surrounded all four sides
FGAm
We hailed the house with bullets and swore they were gonna pay
AmGAm
But the Calvary came across the plains, and once again saved the day
AmGAm
Well, they marched 'em off to Cheyenne, and no one went to jail
AmGAm
The cattlemen we're all turned loose, and the hired guns hit the trail
FEmGAm
And I guess the only justice, wasn't much to say the least
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Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef.
FGAm
There's no middle ground in this Johnson County War...