Garth Brooks – Lonesome Dove (Guitar)

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Lonessome Dove By: Garth Brooks
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She was a girl on a wagon train

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headed west a-cross the plains.

    Em                    C    D
The train got lost in a summer storm.

     Em                          C           D
They coudln't move west and they couldn't go home

                 G
Then she saw him ridin' through the rain.

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He took charge of the wagons and he saved the train.

    Em                      C         D
And she looked down and her heart was gone.

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The train went west but she stayed on in Lonesome Dove.

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A farmer's daughter with a gentle hand,

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A blooming rose in a bed of sand.

    Em                C      D
She loved the man who wore a star,

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A Texas Ranger known near and far.

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So they got married and they had a child.

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But times were tough and West was wild.

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So it was no surprise the day she learned

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That her Texas man would not return, to Lonesome Dove.
Chorus:
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Back to back with the Rio Grande, a Christian woman in the devil's land.

    Em                           Bm
She learned the language and she learned to fight, but she

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never learned how to beat the lonely nights,

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In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove
Verse 3:
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She watched her boy grow into a man.

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He had an angel's heart and the devil's hand.

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He wore his star for all to see.

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He was a Texas lawman legacy.

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Then one day word blew into town.

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It seemed the man that shot his father down

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Had robbed a bank in Jericho.

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Tho only thing 'tween them and Mexico

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Was Lonesome Dove.
Verse 4:
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The shadows stretched across the land

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As the shots rang out down the Rio Grande.

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And when the smoke had finally cleared the street,

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The men lay at the ranger's feet.

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But legend tells to this very day

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That shots were comin' from an alleyway.

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Though no one knows who held the gun,

      Em                    C       D
There ain't no doubt if you ask someone

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In Lonesome Dove.
Chorus:
 Em                   G             C                       G      D/F#
Back to back with the Rio Grande, a Christian woman in the devil's land.

    Em                           Bm
She learned the language and she learned to fight, but she

C                             Am            D
never learned how to beat the lonely nights,

   D   G          D   G
In Lonesome Dove, Lonesome Dove