Ranger's Command

by Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez · posted by WaltP

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+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab

RANGER’S COMMAND
Traditional folk song
Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez
Key: G

-8    8  -8  8  -8   7    8  8  -8   7   -6
Come all of you cow-boys all ov-er this land
-8    -8  -8  -7  -66 6   6  -6   7    -8   7
I'll sing you the law of the Ran-ger's com-mand.

To hold a six-shooter and never to run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.

I met a fair maiden whose name I don't know
I asked her to the round-up with me would she go.

She said she'd go with me to the cold round-up
And drink that hard liquor from a cold bitter cup.

We started for the round-up in the fall of the year
Expecting to get there with a herd of fat steer.

When the rustlers broke on us in the dead hour of night
She rose from her warm bed a battle to fight.
She rose from her warm bed with a gun in each hand
Saying, "Come all you cowboys, and fight for your land."

Come all of you cowboys, and don't ever run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns.

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