The Cowboy's Dream

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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

THE COWBOY’S DREAM
American folk song
Key: E
Time: 3/4

 -4    6   -4 6  6 -6*  7*  -7  -7
Last night as I lay on the prai-rie
 5*   -4  -5* -6*  -7  -6*  7   7*
And looked at the stars in the sky
-4 6   -4   6  6 -6* 7* -8 -7
I won-dered if ev-er a cow-boy
  5*   -5*  5*  -4   -7    7* -6*  6
Would drift to that sweet bye-and-bye
 6   -6* -4  -6*  -6*    7* -7 7*  -8
The road to that bright hap-py re-gion
7*-6*-6* -4  -6*  -6*   7*  -7   7*
Is a dim nar-row trail, so they say
  7*  -7   -8   -8
While the broad one 
 -8   -8   -7  7* -8  -7
That heads to per-di-tion
5*  -4  -4  5*   -7    7* -6*  6
Is post-ed and blazed all the way
 -4  7*   5*  -7  -6* -5*
Roll on, roll on, roll on
-5* -5* -5*  5*   -4  6    -8  6
Lit-tle dog-gies roll on, roll on
 -4  7*   5*  8*  -7*  -8
Roll on, roll on, roll on
-8  -8  -7   7*  -6*  6
Lit-tle dog-gies roll on
-4  -4    6     -4   6   6
And I’m scared that I’ll be 
-6* 7*   -7   -7
A stray year-ling
5* -4  -5* -6*  -7  -6* 7   7*
A mave-rick un-brand-ed on high
-4  -4   6  -4  6    6
and get out in the bunch
 -6*  7*  -8   -7
With the “rus-tles”
 5*   5* -5*  5* -4  -7   7* -6*  6
When the Boss of the Rid-ers goes by

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