Chris LeDoux – Yellow Outlaw Stud (Guitar)

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Transpose -3 and capo 3 for the easiest chord shapes [1st Verse]
Cm               Eb         F               Ab
Somewhere on the prairie a yellow stud runs free

Cm                  Eb        G                G
Runnin' through the sagebrush down through the coolies

Cm              Eb          F             Ab
There not far behind him, a cowboy rides along

     Cm           F             G                 Cm
He's gonna try to catch him and break him for his own
[2nd Verse]
    Cm                Eb          F             Ab
The chase goes on all mornin' and late into the day

    Cm             Eb        G                G
The cowboy changes horses he staked along the way

    Cm               Eb            F                  Ab
The stud is growin' weaker now and gettin' short of wind

   Cm            F                G                Cm
He runs into the trap corral, the cowboy shuts him in
[3rd Verse]
     Cm               Eb             F             Ab
The yellow stud with wild eyes, the feared, hated man

Cm               Eb                  G             G
Finally standin' face to face in the hot and dusty sand

    Cm                Eb          F                 Ab
The battle starts and rages on beneath the burnin' sun

    Cm               F                  G             Cm
The cowboy tried but couldn't ride that yellow outlaw stud
[4th Verse] (Spoken)
      Cm                Eb          F                   Ab
So he sold him to a rodeo, and it spread thoughout the land

    Cm             Eb               G              G
The legend of this yellow stud, the baddest of the bad

            Cm               Eb          F             Ab
(Sung) And then one day at Cheyenne we knew it had to come

     Cm               F          G                Cm
The best of all bronc riders, he drew that yellow stud
[5th Verse]
    Cm               Eb           F                  Ab
The wooden gate flew open and the stud he bailed out high

     Cm         Eb           G                  G
An explosion of yellow horse seemed to fill the sky

    Cm                Eb           F                Ab
The stud kept gettin' stronger and thrashin' up the earth

     Cm            F          G                Cm
The cowboy blew a stirrup and crashed into the dirt
[6th Verse]
   Cm             Eb             F                   Ab
So violently the stud had bucked that he slipped and fell

   Cm               F                     G                 Cm
As he went down his backbone snapped, the yellow stud lay still
[7th Verse] (Spoken)
             Cm                 Eb      F                    Ab
Well, as the cowboys gathered round him, I heard one of 'em say

Cm                        Eb             G
There'll never be another bronc like the one that died today

             Cm             Eb                F                 Ab
(Sung) But out there on the prairie there's a mare with mustang blood

      Cm                 F          G               Cm
And a colt runs close beside her, a yellow outlaw stud