Guy Clark - Indian Cowboy Chords

[Verse 1]

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If you ever go out to the circus
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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
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I'll tell you a tale to remember
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When the white horses leap rings of fire

[Verse 2]

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It was a cold night in Oklahoma
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And the show was about to begin
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The animals they were all restless
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When the star-horse broke from her pen

[Verse 3]

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Well, she was a mare of high spirit
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Like a whore on a Saturday night
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Just a-kickin' and a-buckin' while the men were a-brushin'
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The elephants lying on there sides

[Verse 4]

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Now close to the tent sat some lanterns
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They were dangerously close to the hay
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That mare headed straight for those lanterns
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Some fool had left by mistake

[Verse 5]

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Then up steps an Indian Cowboy
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And his lasso went whirrlin through the air
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Smack-dab in the middle of danger
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He roped that runaway mare

[Verse 6]

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And the elephants raised up their trumpets
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And two of them broke from their chains
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Stampeded that Indian Cowboy
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Who had saved the big-top from flames

[Verse 7]

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So if you ever go out to the circus
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Where the Wallendas walk on the wire
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Remember that Indian Cowboy
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When the white horses leap rings of fire