Johnson County War
Chris Ledoux
Album: Powder River
Standard Tuning
Tabbed by Wyomingcowboy86
For Guitar 2 Fills choose Johnson County War(Guitar 2)

Intro:

Guitar 2
E|------------------------|----------0-1-0-----------|
B|------------------------|-----0-1-3-----3-1-0------|
G|------------------------|2-0-2----------------2-0-2|
D|-02h-02h-02h-02h-02h-02h|--------------------------|
A|0---0---0---0---0---0---|--------------------------|
E|------------------------|--------------------------|

E|----3-8-7-5-3-3-/5|1-1-3-1-0---3-7-5|
B|-1-3---------3----|---------1-3-----|
G|2-----------------|----------0------|
D|------------------|-----------------|
A|------------------|-----------------|
E|------------------|-----------------|

E|----------0-1-0----------|
B|-----0-1-3-----3-1-0-----|
G|2-0-2---------------2-0-2|
D|-------------------------|
A|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------|

-> guitar 1
Am (x02210@1)                   G (320003@1)name="chord_x02210@1">Am  Am (x02210@1)                                     
Headed for Wyoming, in 1882, A woman, a team, and a wagon.
           G (320003@1)               Am (x02210@1)Gonna make our dreams come true.
F (133211@1)            G (320003@1)                                AmSettled (x02210@1)in the foothills of the big horn mountain slope.
                                           G (320003@1)          AmLife (x02210@1)is sweet we lived on the meat, of the deer and the antelope
Am (x02210@1)                                        G (320003@1)                  AmWe (x02210@1)cut house logs on the mountain, with the team we hauled 'em down
Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)                AmPeeled (x02210@1)'em and we stacked 'em up, plowed some bottom ground.
F (133211@1)                G (320003@1)                        AmTraded (x02210@1)for some cattle, turned 'em out on the range
Am (x02210@1)                                    G (320003@1)                   AmThe (x02210@1)skies were blue and we never knew...How things were gonna change


F (133211@1)                 G (320003@1)            Am (x02210@1)                
Ole powder river, you're muddy and wide,
F (133211@1)                                  EHow (022100@1)many men have died...upon your shores.
F (133211@1)                             G (320003@1)               AmWhen (x02210@1)you brand a man a rustler, he's gotta take a side.
           F (133211@1)                   G (320003@1)             AmThere's (x02210@1)no middle ground in this Johnson Country War.



Am (x02210@1)                                      G (320003@1)                                 
Well, the neighbors stopped by yesterday, while I was outside choppin' 
Amwood. (x02210@1)Am (x02210@1)                                     G (320003@1)                      AmAnd (x02210@1)they filled me in on the local news, ain't none of it sounded good,
F (133211@1)                                     G (320003@1)                     AmSaid, (x02210@1)they'd been some cattle stealin', by some no count outlaw band.
Am (x02210@1)                                       G (320003@1)              AmWe'd (x02210@1)all been branded rustler's by the big ranchers of this land.
Am (x02210@1)                                          G (320003@1)                AmWell (x02210@1)it was us against the cattlemen, and the years just made it worse.
Am (x02210@1)                                      G (320003@1)             
First the drought, then the tough winter, Johnson County had been dealt 
  Ama (x02210@1)curse,
F (133211@1)                                 G (320003@1)             Am (x02210@1)   
Then their came the story about the two "dry gulch" attacks:
Am (x02210@1)                          G (320003@1)                   AmRanger (x02210@1)Jones and John Tisdale both been shot in the back



Verse 3
Am (x02210@1)                            G (320003@1)               AmThen (x02210@1)last night at supper time, riders stopped by chance.
Am (x02210@1)                                G (320003@1)                    AmThey (x02210@1)said cattleman and hired guns, just burned the Kaycee Ranch,
F (133211@1)                            G (320003@1)              AmTwo (x02210@1)men had died this mornin', shot down in the snow
Am (x02210@1)                              G (320003@1)      AmNow (x02210@1)the vigilante army was on the march to Buffalo
Am (x02210@1)                                 G (320003@1)                     AmWell (x02210@1)the county was in an uproar, an every man saddled up to ride
Am (x02210@1)                                      G (320003@1)                 AmCaught (x02210@1)the cattlemen at the TA Ranch, and surrounded all four sides
F (133211@1)                      G (320003@1)                               AmWe (x02210@1)hailed the house with bullets and swore they were gonna pay
Am (x02210@1)                                        G (320003@1)                  AmBut (x02210@1)the Calvary came across the plains, and once again saved the day


Am (x02210@1)                                        G (320003@1)            AmWell, (x02210@1)they marched 'em off to Cheyenne, and no one went to jail
Am (x02210@1)                                          G (320003@1)                AmThe (x02210@1)cattlemen we're all turned loose, and the hired guns hit the trail
F (133211@1)                  Em (022000@1)            G (320003@1)             Am (x02210@1) 
And I guess the only justice, wasn't much to say the least
(No Chord)->
Last winter me and mine ate mighty fine on the cattle baron's beef.


           F (133211@1)                   G (320003@1)            AmThere's (x02210@1)no middle ground in this Johnson County War...

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