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(I Want To Be)

A Cowboy's Sweetheart

Words and Music by Patsy Montana - 1925

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C	C#dim	G	E7
A7	D7	G	-          (repeat)

8-beat intro. with 3 lead-in notes.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart,

I want to learn to rope and to ride.

I want to ride o'er the plains and the desert,

Out west of the Great Divide.

I want to hear the coyotes howlin,

While the sun sets deep in the west.

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart,

That's the life I love the best.

 

I wanna ride old Paint, goin' at a run,

I wanna feel the wind in my face.

A thousand miles from the city lights,
Goin' a cowboy's pace.

I wanna pillow my head near the sleepin' herd,

While the moon shines down from above.

I wanna strum my guitar and yo-del-ay-hee-hee,

'Cause that's the life I love.
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Performer Links:

(webpage)

 

Watch Barbara Faustine perform "Cowboy's Sweetheart" with her plectrum banjo (youtube)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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email: jbott@ix.netcom.com