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Ridin' Down The Canyon

Words and Music by Gene Autry & Smiley Burnett - 1936

Verse:
G	B7	C	G
A7	D7	G	D7
G	B7	C	G
A7	D	D7	-
Chorus:
G	B7	C	G
A7	D7	G	D7
G	B7	C	G
A7	-	D7	-
G7	-	C	-
A7	-	D7	-
G	B7	C	G
A7	D7	G	-  (D7  to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

When evening chores are over at our ranch house on the plain,

And all I've got to do is lay around.

I saddle up my pony and ride off down the trail,

To watch the desert sun go down.

 

Chorus:

Ridin' down the canyon to watch the sun go down.

A picture that no artist e'er could paint.

White faced cattle lowin' on the mountian side,

Hear a coyote whinin' for it's mate.

Cactus plants are bloomin' sagebrush every where.

Granite spires are standin' all around.

I tell you folks it's heaven to be ridin' down the trail,

When the desert sun goes down.

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Watch Eddie Davis perform "Ridin' Down The Canyon" (youtube)

 

Listen to the San Fernando Valley Banjo Band play "Ridin' Down The Canyon" (mp3)

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Trivia:

While driving through New Mexico and Arizona, with Gene Autry, en route to Hollywood,

the splendor of the American West inspired Smiley Burnett to write "Ridin' Down the Canyon"

on the back of a magazine, he then sold it to Gene for five dollars.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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