Am  G


[Intro]
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[Chorus]
    F                              C
The last Comanche moon was shinin' on me,
                           G
Bright as day my true love walked the trail from Hell's Midnight,
  Am                G
I rode the Milky Way,
F
I raced the Wolf the night,
    C
The Broken Arrow fell,
            G
I staked my life and lost my fortune,
       Am
For to save the Mission Belle.


[Interlude]
N.C.  Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 1]
Am                       F
I was a cowboy once down on the Rio Grande,
G                         Am
I rode the ranges for the Broken Arrow brand,
                            F
I was on guard that fateful night in early June,
G                       Am                 G/B
I saw the risin' of the last Comanche moon,
C                        G
I saw the warriors ride around the river bend,
  Dm                                   Am                   G/B
I give a shout to rouse the boys their home ranch to defend,
C                               G
They kept us pinned down with a hundred arrows flung,
     Dm                                Am
They come for all our horses, and they left us with just one,
                                       F
I'd locked him with a trace chain to a live oak tree that day,
   G                           Am
My racin' blue roan stallion I called the Milky Way.


[Interlude]
Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 2]
Am                            F
His daddy was a mustang and a famous fightin' stud,
    G                           Am
His mamma was a thoroughbred of pure Kentucky blood,
                            F
He was worth a fortune of a thousand, maybe more,
    G                                  Am                   G/B C
His winnin's numbered hundreds and his winters numbered four,
                                G
They raised a cheer back at the Broken Arrow Ranch,
       Dm                          Am                   G/B C
When I rode the Milky Way into the moonlighted Comanch,
                            G
I shot my way out through a hundred painted braves,
    Dm                                   Am
And struck the trail that led to town my true love for to save,
                                   F
My true love was a barmaid and she worked at Gambler's Hell,
    G                               Am
Her name was Julie Anne but she was called the Mission Belle.


[Interlude]
Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 3]
Am                                   F
Julie Anne lived in the ruins of the ancient mission church,
     G
That stood a mile from town out,
          Am
Where the braves were sure to search,
                                       F
She always walked the trail alone from Hell's Midnight Saloon,
    G                                Am                G/B  C
And I was bound to save her from the last Comanche moon,
                          G
Halfway to town and I was crossin' Devil Branch,
  Dm                       Am               G/B C
I run onto another raidin' party of Comanch,
                       G
I recognized a warrior on a blood bay mare,
  Dm
I knew his name was Wolf,
               Am
They said he'd lifted lots of hair,
Am
We had hoss raced at the fort,
     F
He admired my blue roan stud,
   G                                    Am                   G
He come on through the moonlight like a lobo trailin' blood,


[Chorus]
    F                              C
The last Comanche moon was shinin' on me,
                           G
Bright as day my true love walked the trail from Hell's Midnight,
  Am                 G
I rode the Milky Way,
F
I raced the Wolf the night,
    C
The Broken Arrow fell,
            G
I staked my life and lost my fortune,
       Am
For to save the Mission Belle.


[Interlude]
Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 4]
Am                       F
I shot my pistol dry and dropped it on the road,
        G                                Am
With my saddle bag and cartridge belt to lighten up the load,
Am
But an arrow found old Milky Way,
        F
And his wound began to bleed,
        G
And the Wolf was on his war horse,
  Am                   G/B C
A fleet Comanche steed,
                                G
There in the moonlight rose the ancient mission wall,
    Dm                              Am                    G/B C
The Wolf was right behind me when I heard my true love call,
                          G
I rode the racehorse of a lifetime to the ground,
  Dm                              Am
I swear it died a runnin' and his likes have not been found,
                            F
I landed on my shadow and I lay just where I fell,
    G                                 Am
The screams of Julie Ann met with the Wolf's Comanche yell.


[Interlude]
Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 5]
Am                          F
I've been called a liar and I've been called a fool,
   G                                 Am
'N I've been told Comanches grant no mercy as a rule,
                                        F
But old Wolf he seen me helpless and he seen his chance I know,
       G                             Am                    G/B C
But he only rode right by me, and he struck me with his bow,
                               G
He could have killed me but he only counted coup,
   Dm                                 Am                    G/B C
He turned and touched the Milky Way before the ghost had flew,
                          G
He give a war yell like a wolf burned with a brand,
     Dm                                Am
Then turned and ducked the pistol shot fired by Julie Ann,
                                F
She helped me right up from the hard spot where I fell,
    G                             Am
The last Comanche moon, the Milky Way, the Mission Belle.


[Interlude]
Am
Hey-y oh.


[Verse 6]
Am      N.C.                      F
It's been sixty years now since I made that fateful ride,
    G                                Am
And it's been twenty winters since I heard the Wolf had died,
                                  F
It's been seven moons now since I lost my Julie Ann,
    G                              Am                   G/B C
I'm goin' for to join her boys, my time is near at hand,
                                 G
Don't mind my passin' boys, it's time the old man died,
    Dm                               Am                   G/B C
The Wolf he waits to guide me up the trail o'er the divide,
                           G
The moon is risin' like it did so long ago,
  Dm                              Am
I see the warriors waitin' on the ridge now, all aglow,
                          F
Farewell world of trouble here comes Julie Ann,
    G                              Am                    G
She rides the Milky Way to take me to the promised land.


[Chorus]
    F                              C
The last Comanche moon was shinin' on me,
                           G
Bright as day my true love walked the trail from Hell's Midnight,
  Am                 G
I rode the Milky Way,
F
I raced the Wolf the night,
    C
The Broken Arrow fell,
            G
I staked my life and lost my fortune,
       Am
For to save the Mission Belle.


[Outro]
Am
Hey-y oh,
Am
Hey-y oh,
Am
Hey-y oh.