G                    G7             C
I was there the night they killed country music
G  D  D7  G


[Verse 1]
          G                G7
Well, the bull was buckin' hard
        C              G
And the scene was so bizarre
                                  D7
As a busload of tourists wandered in
       G            G7
They'd never seen a wrench
    C                  G
And most of them spoke French
                       D7                G
And they all got up to see if they could dance


[Verse 2]
    G               G7
And up there on the stage
  C                   G
A band called Prairie Sage
                                 D7
Was tryin' to keep the old ways alive
        G                     G7
But the urbans, they wouldn't listen
                  C                 G
Well, they bought t-shirts and went pissin'
                       D7             G
Off all the locals for comin' to this dive


[Chorus]
          C                    G7             C
And I was there the night they killed country music
      G                                  D7
I was sittin' on a barstool cryin' in my beer
      G                    G7             C
I was there the night they killed country music
       G                D7         D          G
In one evenin', they destroyed the last fifty years


[Instrumental]
G  G7  C
G  D   D7   G


[Verse 3]
           G               G7
Well, they all wore Calvin Kleins
    C                 G
The hub there, tied behind
                                 D7
The little golden coxcomb on the chain
     G                G7
As I sat there on the back row
C                  G
Tryin' to hear the dobro
                D7            G
I swear I heard one old-timer sang   (Hear him sang!


[Chorus]
      C                    G7  N.C.       C
I was there the night they killed country music
      G                                  D7
I was sittin' on a barstool cryin' in my beer
      G                    G7             C
I was there the night they killed country music
       G                D7         D          G
In one evenin', they destroyed the last fifty years


[Outro]
       G N.C.            D7 N.C.   D          G
In one evenin', they destroyed the last fifty years