This is a great song and fairly simple to play, after listening to the 
song which is on Rodeo Rock 'n' Roll Collection, you should get the 
strumming down. 
 
I've Got To Be A Rodeo Man - Chris LeDoux 
 
D5                                C5 
Sometimes this old road 
G5                                                D5 
Get's so damn lonesome away from home 
C5                      G5                         D5 
Ain't no way in sigth head on back 
D5                        C5 
Nobody knows the way it feels 
G5                                    D5 
Suffer through this living hell 
C5                            G5                            D5 
Less you been on down that road yourself 
 
CHORUS 
D5                                C5 
Boy don't ya know I ain't really a bum 
G5                                            D5 
I was once a clean cut mothers son 
   C5                                      G5                  D5 
And you know down deep inside I still am 
C5                            G5                            D5 
But this rodeo life's got it's hold on me 
C5                        G5                            D5 
And there aint no way to set me free 
C5                                G5                    D5 
You know I've gotta be a rodeo man 
 

D5 C5 G5 D5 
 
Verse 2 played same 
Skinny old dog on the rodeo grounds 
Scroungin', sniffin', lookin around 
In alot of ways I'm just like him 
Cause I'm eating up scraps off the dinner table 
In a greasy cafe' til I'm able 
Ride those broncs good enough to win 
 
CHORUS