Played as a Waltz

Chords for Verses and Chorus: G D C G

Verse 1
G      D        C            G
Well the world’s greatest wonder from what I can tell
G      D        C            G
Is how a cowgirl like you could ever look my way
G      D        C            G
I was blinded by glory with a half written story
G      D        C            G
and song spillin’ out off of every page

Chorus – G D C G
G      D        C            G
Sweet Amarillo, Tears on my pillow
G      D        C            G
You never will know how much I cried
G      D        C            G
Sweet Amarillo, like a wind in the willow
G      D        C            G
Damn this old cowboy for my foolish pride

Verse 2
G      D        C            G
So I drifted on down from the Iron Ore range
G      D        C            G
Caught the wide Missouri where the cool waters flow
G      D        C            G
When I got to Topeka, I looked up your name
G      D        C            G
but they said you rode off with the last rodeo

Chorus

Bridge
C  
Well the thunders are rumblin’ 
and the tumbleweeds tumblin’
D
and the rodeo clowns are paintin’ their face
C
I’m gunnin’ the throttle for Llano Estacado  
Am7                    D
on a wild appaloosa I’m blowing your way

Verse 3
G      D        C            G]
Down in old Amarillo there’s a light in the window
G      D        C            G
where a rogue weary shadow drifts into the arms
G      D        C            G
of a long distance lover then they turn back the covers
G      D        C            G
and dance the Redova till the light of the dawn

Chorus
G D C G
Sweeeeeet Amarillo
G D C G
Sweeeeeet Amarillo