Colter Wall – Cypress Hills And The Big Country (Guitar)

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Chords

Colter is usually alternating the bass with the thumb. So the picking pattern would be: Pick root, down, pick 5th, up, down, up [Intro] C C C C C C G G G G Am Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G G C C C C [Verse 1]
C
You can see the bear paws

    G
The old man on his back

G7
Prickly pears, a blue moon

       Am
In the short and native grass

          C      Cadd2/B  Am
There's a bunch of empty beer cans

Am/G    F        Em      Dm
In an old, loose mineral sack

G                                  C
Give you some idea of where you're at
[Verse 2]
C                      G
Buck brush and sage as far as you can see

         G7
It's the south slopes of the hills

         Am
Turns to pine and poplar trees

C    Cadd2/B  Am     Am/G    F     Em     Dm
Cattle all a-grazing up and down a big coulee

      G
Under Charlie Russell skies

                       C
Like a blue and purple sea
[Chorus]
         Am
Cypress Hills

        G
And the big country below

              Am
Where life is still

      G           G7
And a man can be alone

        C      Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath

 Am      Am/G       F        Em    Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time

       G                             C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire
[Solo] C C G G G7 G7 Am Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G G C C C C G G G7 G7 Am Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G G C C [Chorus]
         Am
Cypress Hills

        G
And the big country below

              Am
Where life is still

      G           G7
And a man can be alone

        C      Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath

 Am      Am/G       F        Em    Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time

       G                             C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire
[Post-Chorus]
        C         Cadd2/B  Am      Am/G
You can sweat and cuss and wonder why

     F       Em        Dm
They say our west has died

         G
When the folks around the Cypress Hills

                         C
Still drag calves to the fire
[Outro] (C) Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G G C