Chris LeDoux – The Double Diamond (Guitar)

D          A
The ol' Double Diamond

B                      A
Lay out east of Dubois

G                        A
In the land of the buffalo

D                             A
And the auctioneer’s gavel

B                       A
It rapped and it rattled

G                                     A
As I watched the ol' Double Diamond go

F                               B
And won't you listen to the wind

G                      A
Mother Nature's violin

D                   A
When I first hired on

            B          A
At the ol' Double Diamond

              G                   A
I was a damn poor excuse for a man

            D              A
I never learned how to aim

                G       A
While my spirt was tame

           G                            A
I didn't know all the cards in my hand

             F                              B
And the wind whipped the granite above me

G                                            A
And blew the tumbleweeds clean through my soul

D                         A
Well, I fought her winters

B                       A
And I busted her horses

G                                       A
I took more than I thought I could stand

D                                   A          B
But the battles with the mountains and cattle

G                               A
Can bring out the best in a man

F                              B
I guess a sailor needs an ocean

G                            A
And a mama her babies to hold

D                     A        B  A
But I need the plains of Wyoming

G                          A
In the land of the buffalo

D                        A
But now she's sellin' out

B                     A
And I'm movin' on

G                                    A
But I'm leaving with more than I came

D                      A
'Cause I got this pony

B                    A
And he ain't for sale

G                              A
And I've got this song to sing

                F
I've got a new range to find

                B
I've got a new knot to tie

        G                          A
In a country where cowboys are king

      D                    A
We turned tails to the wind

B                         A
At the ol' Double Diamond

G                                A
And took off down through the sage

                       F       B
And wont you listen to the wind

G                      A
Mother Nature's violin