Intro(lead):

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G --------9----7------7-9--------9~----7~--
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G --7-9---------9----7-----7-9--------9~----7~--
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The intro chords are DAG(x4)

Verse:(x4)

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G ----------7------6---------4------
D -----7-------------7-----5--------
A --5------------7-------5----------
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Theres a cowboy I knew in south Texas
His face was burnt deep by the sun
Part history, part sage, part Mexican
He was there when Pancho Villa was young

Verse 2(x4):

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B -------7-----------5------------3----------
G -------7-----------------------------------
D ----7-----7----------7--------5------------
A --5-------------7-----------5--------------
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And he’d tell you a tail of the old days
When the country was wild all around
He’d sit out under the stars of the Milky Way
And hed listen as the coyotes howled and they go..

Chorus:

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B -------7-----------5------------3-----------
G -------7------------------------------------
D ----7-----7----------7--------5-------------
A --5-------------7-----------5---------------
E --------------5-----------3----------------- (x3)

Chorus End:

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G -------7----------------
D ----7-----7----------7--
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G -------------------
D ------5-------7----
A ----5-------7------
E --3-------5-------- 

Poo yip poo yip poo
Poodi hoo di yip poo di yip poo
Poo yip poo yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo

Bridge 2:

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Bm G’ G

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B ----------------------------------3--
G -------------------------------------
D ------9-------9--------5--------5----
A ----9-------9--------5--------5------
E --7-------7--------3--------3-------- 

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B ----------------8---------------------
G ------9-------9-----------------------
D ----9-------9----------7---------7----
A --7-------7----------7---------7------
E -------------------5---------5-------- 

[D/F#]

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B ----------------8--------3-------3----
G ------9-------9--------2-------2------
D ----9-------9-------------------------
A --7-------7---------------------------
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G’ G A

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D ------5-------5-------7-------7-7-7---
A ----5-------5-------7-------7-7-7-7---
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Now the Longhorns are gone and the drovers are gone
The Comanche are gone and the out laws are gone
Geronimos gone and Sam Bass is gone
And the lion is gone and the red wolf is gone

Add Lyrics:

Well he cursed all the roads and the oil rigs
And he cursed the automobile
Said “this aint no place for an hombre like I am
In this new world of asphault and steel”

Then He’d look off some place in the distance
At somethin only he could see
Hed say “all thats left now of the old days
Are them damned ol’ coyotes and me” and they go

Poo yip poo yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo
Poo yip poo yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo

And the Longhorns are gone and the drovers are gone
The Comanches are gone and the outlaw is gone
San Juati is gone, Quatro is gone
And the buffalo gone and the red wolf is gone

One mornin we searched his adobe
He disappeared without even a word
But that night as the moon crossed the mountains
One more coyote was heard and he’d go

Poo yip poo yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo
Poo yip poo yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo
Poo di hoo di yip poo di yip poo

Poem by Berton Braley, Music & additional Lyrics by Don Edwards
Transcribed and Submitted by: Brian McNeal (kc7rcc@netscape.net)

Note:
Don Edwards actually has two different versions of this song. This
version is from the Don Edwards/West of Yesterday CD and varies from
the earlier version on his “Chant of the Wanderer” CD in that he has
written the chorus which makes the song sound more commercial.

Don Edwards: Vocal & Acoustic Guitar
Tim & Molly O’Brien: Harmony Vocals
Rich O’Brien: Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin/6-string Banjo
Tom Morrell: Slide Resonator Guitar
Randy Elmore: Fiddle
Bob Boatright: Fiddle
Mark Abbott: Upright Bass

The Habit
Poem by Berton Braley, Music & additional Lyrics by Don Edwards

I beat my way wherever any winds have blown
I’ve bummed along from Portland down to San Antone
From Shady Hook to Frisco, over plains and hills
For once you get the Habit, you just can’t keep still

I’ve seen a lot of places where I’d like to stay
I gets to feelin’ restless, then I’m on my way
I was never meant for sittin’ on my own door sill
For once you get the Habit, you just can’t keep still

Chorus
I ride wherever the wind[-] blows
I’m driftin’ like a tumblew[-]eed
I’m just a wanderin troubador
A song and my guitar is all I need

I’ve been in rich men’s houses and I’ve been in jail
And when its time for leavin’, I just hits the trail
I’m a human bird of passage and the song I trill
Is once you get the Habit, you just can’t keep still

Now the sun is sort of coaxin’ and the road is clear
And the wind is singin’ ballads that I just gotta hear
It ain’t no use to argue when you feel the thrill
For once you get the Habit, you just can’t keep still

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE Repeat last line of chorus

[3/4]Were a--lone Doney Gal in the rain and hail
Were driving them dogies out a--long the trail

CHORUS
Rain or shine, sleet or snow
Me and my Doney Gal were bound to go

We ride the range from sun to sun
For a cowboys work is never done

CHORUS

Were swimming rivers along the way
And pushing for that North Star day by day

CHORUS

Well a cowboys life is a dreary thing
For its rope, and its brand, and its ride, and its sing

CHORUS

Steers are asleep on the new bed ground
Im drifting my doney round and round

CHORUS

Round the campfires flickering glow
We sing the songs from long, long ago

Rain or shine, sleet or snow
Me and my Doney Gal were bound to go
Me and my Doney Gal were bound to go

[Thanks to Stan Beacham for tabs]

Written by: Alex Harvey and Tim Rouillier
Performed by: Don Edwards

1.
Up before the sunrise
Its a rocky road back home
The dust won’t be near settled
As where we just come from
I’ll keep my promise to you
Just like I said I would
And lay you neath the pe-can trees
And hang your spurs for good

chorus:
Say goodbye to Montana.……..
Where the northers always blow……o.……o
The paint brush will be blummin
By the time I get you home

2.
We drove a herd from texas
To the big montana sky
I swear sometimes I wondered
If we make it here alive
I wish i could of told you
That you were my best friend
I guess you always knew that
But we were both to tough to bend

Chorus: same as above

All honor to the cowboy
Your praises they will sing
Cause you never sold your saddle
And thats the most important thing

Final chorus:
Ad…ios … montana……..
Where the northers always blow…..o…...o
The paint brush will be blummin
By the time I get you home