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[Verse 1]
Am               C
Somewhere on the prairie
  D                F
A yellow stud runs free
Am                  C
Running through the sage brush
E
Down through the coolies
    Am                   C
And there not far behind him
  D              F
A cowboy rides a long
     Am           D
He’s gonna try to catch him
    E                 Am  D  Am  D
And break him for his own

[Verse 2]
    Am                C
The chase goes on all morning
    D             F
And late into the day
    Am             C
The cowboy changes horses
   E
He staked along the way
    Am              C
The stud is growing weaker now
    D                F
And getting short of wind
   Am            D
He runs into the trap coral
    E                Am  D  Am  D
The cowboy shuts him in

[Verse 3]
    Am               C
The yellow stud with wild eyes
    D            F
The feared hated man
Am               C
Finally standing face to face
       E
In the hot dusty sand
    Am                C
The battle starts and rages on
  D                 F
Beneath the burning sun
    Am               D
The cowboy tried but couldn’t ride
     E             Am  D  Am  D
This yellow outlaw stud

[Verse 4]
   Am            C
He sold him to a rodeo
       D                   F
And it spread thru out the land
    Am             C
The legend of this yellow stud
    E
The baddest of the bad
Am              C
Then one day at Cheyenne
   D              F
We knew it had to come
    Am                D
The best of all bronc riders
   E                Am   D  Am  D
He drew that yellow stud

[Verse 5]
    Am               C
The wooden gate flew open
        D                  F
And the stud he bailed out high
     Am         C
An explosion of yellow horse
E
Seem to fill the sky
    Am                C
The stud kept getting stronger
    D                F
And thrashing up the earth
    Am            D
The cowboy blew a stirrup
    E                Am  D  Am  D
And crashed into the dirt

[Verse 6]
   Am            C
So violently the stud had bucked
D                   F
That he slipped and fell
   Am               D
As he went down his backbone snapped
    E               Am    Am
The yellow stud lay still
N.C.
As the cowboys gathered round him
  D                     F
I heard one of them say
              Am         C
They’ll never be another bronc
E
Like the one that died today

[Outro]
    Am               C
But out there on the prairie
          D                 F
There’s a mare with mustang blood
      Am                     D
And a colt runs close beside her
         E      Am
A yellow outlaw stud

[Solo]
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