How to Play Last Cowboy Song on Guitar?

Ed Bruce - Last Cowboy Song can be played in the key of D using the D, G, A, Em chords. For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B. For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E. For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B. For Em, To play Em, let low E, G, B, high E ring open, mute A, D. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Last Cowboy Song with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Ed Bruce - Last Cowboy Song Chords

Chord reference D, G, A, Em

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

[D]This is the last cowboy song The end of a hundred year [G]waltz The [A]voices sound sad as they’re singing along Another piece of America’s [D]lost

[D]He rides a feed lot and clerks in a market On weekends selling tobacco and [A]beer And [A]his dreams of tomorrow surrounded by fences But he’ll dream tonight of when fences weren’t [D]here

[D]He blazed the trail with Lewis and Clark And eyeball to eyeball Ol’ Wyatt backed [A]down He [A]stood shoulder to shoulder with Travis in Texas And rode with the Seventh when Custer went [D]down

[D]This is the last cowboy song The end of a hundred year [G]waltz The [A]voices sound sad as they’re singing along Another piece of America’s [D]lost

[D]Remington showed us how he looked on canvas And Louie L’Amore has told us his [A]tale And [A]Willie and Waylon and me sing about him And wish to God [Em]we could have [A]ridden his [D]trail

[D]This is the last cowboy song The end of a hundred year [G]waltz The [A]voices sound sad as they’re singing along Another piece of America’s [D]lost

[D]The Old Chisholm Trail is covered in concrete And they truck ’em to market in fifty foot [A]rigs They [A]blow by his marker never slowing to reason Like living and dying was all that he [D]did

[D]This is the last cowboy song The end of a hundred year [G]waltz The [A]voices sound sad as they’re singing along Another piece of America’s [D]lost

Artist Ed Bruce

Album The Last Cowboy Song

Genres Country

Year 2011

Key D

Ed Bruce - Last Cowboy Song can be played in the key of D using the D, G, A, Em chords.

For D, To play D, press fret 2 on the low E string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 2 on the high E string with finger 2, let A, D ring open, mute B.
For G, To play G, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, let D, G, B ring open, mute low E, high E.
For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the D string with finger 2, let low E, A, high E ring open, mute G, B.
For Em, To play Em, let low E, G, B, high E ring open, mute A, D.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Last Cowboy Song with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.