Intro  
 
F                         Bb 
A cup of coffee with the first sun light 
C                   F 
At a last chance Texaco 
F                                  Gm 
I'm thrumbing through a worn out roadmap 
(Gm)                          C 
Trying to decide which way to go 
 (C)                         Bb                             
These empty miles that are memory 
  C                       F 
They just seem to linger on 
(F)                  Gm 
She left me on this lost highway 
(Gm)                           F 
Wondering why and where she'd gone 
 
Chorus -------------
(F)                            Bb 
That's how a cowgirl breaks a young man heart 
  C                               F 
That's how my whole world slowly came apart 
(F)                     Gm 
With a cold and empty stare 
(Gm)                  C 
As if I wasn't even there 
(C) 
She didn't even stop to cry 
Gm                          F 
That's how a cowgirl says goodbye
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                                  Gm                         F 
                 ending: I guess that's how a cowgirl says goodbye 
 
lead 
F                            Bb 
Called up her mom down in abolene 
C                          F 
just to find out how she fared 
(F)                             Gm 
She said she stopped a while in San Antone 
(Gm)                           C 
spent some time with an old friend 
(C)                        Bb                         
with all this distance in between us  
C                            F 
I'm sure I never cross her mind 
(F)                        Gm 
And it may take all these roads ahead  
(Gm)                   F 
just to leave it all behind 
 
chorus, chorus