Colter Wall – Wild Bill Hickok (Guitar)

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Colter tunes his guitar down 1 whole step, if you do too, Capo on the 3rd. Chords relative to the capo. [Verse 1]
     C                            F               C
Wild Bill was born in Illinois on dry and fertile land

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Pioneer of pistoleers and a dead shot with each hand

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Claimed he was the quickest, there's few who'd ill-agree

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Fewer yet to saw this plainsman draw, still breathe like you and me
[Verse 2]
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He led a stagecoach freight team in his early days of life

    F                                  D7              G
One evenin' on the Western Trail, Bill took the air of night

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And who should come upon him, but a bear whom he'd awoke

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Wild Bill produced his bowie knife and fashioned a new coat
[Verse 3]
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Kansas prairies he knew well and wild Missouri too

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Come 1861, Bill donned the Union blue

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Not unlike his daddy, he'd see no man in bonds

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Every man in Jimmy Lane's brigade, of Hickok they were fond
[Verse 4]
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While a marshal in Abilene many Texans came to call

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Phil Coe told John Wes Hardin, "Wild Bill has got to fall

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"He's a cruel and brutish yankee, and if you don't then I will"

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Wild Bill put down Phil Coe, Wes Hardin's livin' still
[Verse 5]
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He met his fate in Deadwood inside Tom Nuttall's place

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Amidst a game of poker, holdin' Aces and two Eights

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When up stepped from behind him the Coward, Jack McCall

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The slug ripped through his auburn hair, poor Wild Bill never saw