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[Verse 1]
C                G     C
He rode up on a winter day
C                   G           C
Steam rising off a streak-faced bay
F                   C       F
Said, you probably know my name
C                  G        C
If you don't it's Arkansas Dave


[Verse 2]
    C                 G     C
He talked of fifteen years ago
     C              G      C
And how he got the bay he rode
          F              C       F
Said, he killed a man in Oh - i - o
       C                    G        C
First man he killed, first horse he stole


[Chorus 1]
          F             C        F
It was a long road for Arkansas Dave
    C                 G        C
He shot and left him where he lay
            F                 C      F
Said, he'd never forget that winter day
C                 G           C
He rode off on a streak-faced bay


[Verse 4]
C                 G         C
I stood up and I shook his hand
     C              G        C
Told no one that I knew this man
  F              C     F
Started thinking of a plan
       C               G         C
'Bout how I'd deal him his last hand


[Verse 5]
        C                G    C
Didn't take him long to come unwound
C                        G       C
He jumped up and gunned two men down
 F              C         F
Ran outside to leave the town
         C              G      C
But ol' bay was nowhere to be found

E|--Mo| dulate up to D--


[Verse 6]
   D               A     D
I hid out with my forty-four
     D                   A           D
And when he walked back through the door
   G                 D        G
I shot till I could shoot no more
           D            A       D
And Dave Rudabaugh fell to the floor


[Chorus 2]
            G                   D       G
It was the end of the road for Arkansas Dave
   D                 A        D
I shot and left him where he lay
      G                 D      G
I'll never forget that winter day
D                  A            D
I rode off on the streak faced bay
         G                 D     G
No I'll never forget that winter day
D                       A            D
I rode home on daddy's streak faced bay