Don Williams – Old Coyote Town (Guitar)

           C
He’s got a US flag on his front porch

     F                      C
To remind everyone where he lives

    F                         C            G/B
And up in the attic there are papers that prove

    Am                   Gsus4 G
The old house is finally his

      Em                    Dm7
After thirty-five years the grass still don’t grow

        Bdim        Abdim          Am
In that rock hard west Texas ground

      F                C/E              Dm      G
Where my old dad still clings to that old coyote

 C
town

     Em                      F
Like horses the pick-ups are parked out in front

     Em                      F
Of a cafe that don’t need a name

          Am7                    C/G
Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll

          Dm7                       G
Past the boarded up windows down Main

 C
Waist high weeds hide a for sale sign

        F                           C
At the drive-in where my innocence died

        F                    C            G/B
With a rusty advertisement, dangling by a nail

      Am                      G
Says Popcorn and Pepsi for a dime

     Em                     Dm7
And down at the depot where I left for good

          Dbdim            Abdim           Am
There’s a hobo with his three-legged hound

 F                         C/E
Waitin' for a train, that no longer comes to that

 Dm7     G    C
old coyote town

         Em                        F
And the interstate rumbles like a river that runs

      Em                          F
To a rhythm that don’t ever slow down

    Am7                   C/G
As cars and trucks, and time pass by

      Dm7          G
That old coyote town

       C
Daddy falls asleep in the living room

        F               C
On the sofa with the TV on

     F                      C            G/C
Sometimes he waits for a phone call from me

    Am                   G
Sometimes he waits too long

       Em                                 Dm7
But I still think of the people and the place that

          Bdim          Abdim       Am
How much longer will they be around

          F               C/E
Till its ashes to ashes, dust to dust

          Dm     G     C
For that old coyote town

      Em                      F
Like horses the pick-ups are parked out in front

     Em                      F
Of a cafe that don't need a name

          Am7                    C/G
Where the old men rock and the tumbleweeds roll

          Dm7                       G
Past the boarded up windows down Main

         Em                        F
And the interstate rumbles like a river that runs

      Em                          F
To a rhythm that don’t ever slow down

    Am7                   C/G
As cars and trucks, and time pass by

      F     G    C
That old coyote town

                F     G    C
God bless that old coyote town