Gene Watson – We Robbed Trains (Guitar)

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Track 4 of 10 on the album "No One Will Ever Know" (1980) [Intro] D C G/B D/A D C G/B D/A D G D A [Verse 1]
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Cowboys and outlaws and long shiny rails

        D                                  A
Was the background setting of Grandpappy's tales

D                      G         D
Places like Tucson and old Santa Fe

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Cheyenne, Wyoming during Rodeo Days
[Verse 2]
    D                   G              D
I'd sit there for hours perched on his knees

    D                                    A
And ride just as far as his memory could see

     D                     G         D
With Billy The Kid and the one Jesse James

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Rail-riding outlaws that robbed lots of trains
[Chorus]
       G                      D
Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid

    D                                       A
The one Jesse James and some things that we did

G                           D           Bm
I knew them well, son, just like my own name

A                                 D      C   G/B   D/A   D   G D A
Billy and Jesse and me, we robbed trains
[Verse 3]
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But a boy don't stay seven all of his life

    D                                          A
And he starts to wonder what's true and what's lies

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Still, respect makes him listen to an old man's refrain

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'bout a wild bunch of cowboys and some make-believe trains
[Chorus]
       G                      D
Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid

    D                                       A
The one Jesse James and some things that we did

G                           D           Bm
I knew them well, son, just like my own name

A                                 D      C   G/B   D/A   D   G D A
Billy and Jesse and me, we robbed trains
[Verse 4]
    D                     G               D
The funeral was family as funerals should be

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Except for two cowboys no one else could see

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And then they were gone just as quick as they came

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Billy and Jesse had robbed one more train
[Chorus]
       G                      D
Let me tell you a story 'bout Billy The Kid

    D                                       A
The one Jesse James and some things that we did

G                           D           Bm
I knew them well, son, just like my own name

A                                 D      C   G/B   D/A   D   G D A D
Billy and Jesse and me, we robbed trains