Yellow Outlaw Stud Chords

Transpose -3 and capo 3 for the easiest chord shapes
 
 
[1st Verse]
Cm               Eb         F               Ab
Somewhere on the prairie a yellow stud runs free
Cm                  Eb        G                G
Runnin' through the sagebrush down through the coolies
Cm              Eb          F             Ab
There not far behind him, a cowboy rides along
     Cm           F             G                 Cm
He's gonna try to catch him and break him for his own
 
[2nd Verse]
    Cm                Eb          F             Ab
The chase goes on all mornin' and late into the day
    Cm             Eb        G                G
The cowboy changes horses he staked along the way
    Cm               Eb            F                  Ab
The stud is growin' weaker now and gettin' short of wind
   Cm            F                G                Cm
He runs into the trap corral, the cowboy shuts him in
 
[3rd Verse]
     Cm               Eb             F             Ab
The yellow stud with wild eyes, the feared, hated man
Cm               Eb                  G             G
Finally standin' face to face in the hot and dusty sand
    Cm                Eb          F                 Ab
The battle starts and rages on beneath the burnin' sun
    Cm               F                  G             Cm
The cowboy tried but couldn't ride that yellow outlaw stud
 
[4th Verse] (Spoken)
      Cm                Eb          F                   Ab
So he sold him to a rodeo, and it spread thoughout the land
    Cm             Eb               G              G
The legend of this yellow stud, the baddest of the bad
            Cm               Eb          F             Ab
(Sung) And then one day at Cheyenne we knew it had to come
     Cm               F          G                Cm
The best of all bronc riders, he drew that yellow stud
 
[5th Verse]
    Cm               Eb           F                  Ab
The wooden gate flew open and the stud he bailed out high
     Cm         Eb           G                  G
An explosion of yellow horse seemed to fill the sky
    Cm                Eb           F                Ab
The stud kept gettin' stronger and thrashin' up the earth
     Cm            F          G                Cm
The cowboy blew a stirrup and crashed into the dirt
 
[6th Verse]
   Cm             Eb             F                   Ab
So violently the stud had bucked that he slipped and fell
   Cm               F                     G                 Cm
As he went down his backbone snapped, the yellow stud lay still
 
[7th Verse] (Spoken)
             Cm                 Eb      F                    Ab
Well, as the cowboys gathered round him, I heard one of 'em say
Cm                        Eb             G
There'll never be another bronc like the one that died today
             Cm             Eb                F                 Ab
(Sung) But out there on the prairie there's a mare with mustang blood
      Cm                 F          G               Cm
And a colt runs close beside her, a yellow outlaw stud
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