[Intro]
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D|-2-0---2--------------|-2-0---2------------|---2-0-0-0-0-----------------|
A|-----4---2-4-p2-p0-4--|-----4---2-4-p2-p0--|-4-----------4-p2--2-4-p2-0--|
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[Verse 1]
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I'm an old time saddle maker, South Florida is my home
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I've often wondered how I came to be
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With the snakes and the aligators, in a low lagubrious land
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I've never cared for high humidity


[Chorus]
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Oh but out in Colorado when I was but a lad
D                              Bm
Riding in them high and windy hills
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I met up with a horseman, and he said that his name was Link
    A       E       A           Bm
No stranger to them old vaquero skills
D                           E            A
Well I wanted to learn them old vaquero skills


[Verse 2]
     A             E        A           A          E      A
Jack Link was the strangest feller, I'd known him sixteen years
    A         E      A                  Bm
But none the less a cowboy through and through
     A       E             A                         A     E    A
He'd rope a bronc and he'd pitch them coils and he'd dally in a wink
          A       E      A                 Bm
There was nothing with a rope he could not do


[Chorus]
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And he taught me about leather, how to scott and stitch and stem
      D                            Bm
Build saddles on the old committee tree
        A    E      A             A    E       A
But he also took my money, and he also took my car
   A              E        A        Bm
I guess you could say Jack educated me
D                             E        A
In the ways of the world Jack educated me


[Break]
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[Verse 3]
      A        E       A                A        E        A
Fate turns her back on some men, and to some she gives it all
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To see who stands and who will run away
  A         E       A               A       E        A
I know Jack married seven times, he took to drinking hard
    A         E      A             Bm
But more than that I really cannot say


[Chorus]
          D                 Dsus4 D
The trail ends in Arizona, in 1983
       D                                    Bm
With a bar and bet on a bronc that he could ride
       A         E         A                A     E       A
But he could not raise the thousand, in his anger and his shame
     A       E        A                Bm
In a cheap motel that night, Jack Link died
       D             E                  A
With a pistol to his forehead Jack Link died


[Break]
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B|----------------------|--------------------|-----------------------------|
G|----------------------|--------------------|-----------------------------|
D|-2-0---2--------------|-2-0---2------------|-2-0---2-----------------2/4-|
A|-----4---2-4-p2-p0-4--|-----4---2-4-p2-p0--|-----4---2-4-p2-p0-2-4-0-----|
E|----------------------|--------------------|-----------------------------|


[Chorus]
          D                 Dsus4 D
The trail ends in Arizona, in 1983
       D                                    Bm
With a bar and bet on a bronc that he could ride
       A         E         A                A     E       A
But he could not raise the thousand, in his anger and his shame
     A       E        A                Bm
In a cheap motel that night, Jack Link died
       D             E                  A
With a pistol to his forehead Jack Link died


[Outro]
(Slowed)
     A*           E*        A*           A*     E*   A*
Jack Link was the strangest feller, that I have ever known


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