Intro  Dm

Verse 1

Dm
With a thin high crack of leather 
F                 Bb
A flash of silver spurs
Gm                    Bb
The horseman comes to hoof beat drums 
Dm             C    
A restless wanderer
     Dm              Am
Look quickly when he passes 
     Bb             Gm
Look quickly if you can
Dm                     Gm        C   
You just might see the last American
     Dm              Bm7
He's riding o'er the far horizon 
C               F
Without fear or shame
   Dm               Am               G
So tip your hat and don't forget his name
     F                     G       C
It's written in the Cowboy Hall of Fame

Verse 2

Dm                       F               Bb
He might be a rustler or he might be the law
   Gm             F          Dm              C   
He may go down in history as quickest on the draw
Dm             Am             Bb             Gm
Or he may be a wrangler who's quicker with a song
Dm                 Gm        C    
All you little doughgees git along
   D                               C              F
No two bit tinhorn gambler's gonna cheat him in a game
Dm                   Am               C
He'd rather take his poke and stake a claim
     F                    G       C
On a rancho in the Cowboy Hall of Fame

Chorus 1

Gm   Dm       Cm7            F          Bb          
Ride free  forever on the unfenced open range
        Gm            C           F
All the way to California and the sea
              C              Am           
But keep your powder dry and never change

Verse 3

Dm
He's a ridin' down in Texas 
     F               Bb
He's on the Chisholm Trail
      Gm                 F
He'll go through old New Mexico 
      Dm             C
Stand fast and never fail
Dm              F
He's out in the Missouri Breaks 
     Bb          Gm
He's down in Monterey
     Dm                Gm             C    
Look quickly 'cause he just went that away

Chorus 2

         D                          C                 F
And he's going to Oklahoma trailing dust and shooting flames
Dm              Am                G
A man that only God himself could tame
            F                    G       C
To hang his saddle in the Cowboy Hall of Fame

Outro

            F                    G      C
To hang his saddle in the Cowboy Hall of Fame