------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'The Ballad Of King Coyote' From Johnathan Rices album 'Further North' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyrics are from Johnathanrice.com If anyone has trouble with the strumming pattern/applying the lick during the A chord leave a comment and ill look into posting a tutorial on youtube. Also comment any corrections. He plays the A as an open chord and the D and E as bar chords with root notes on the A string This is a lick he plays while holding the A chord e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|-------------3--0-------0--------------------------------------------------| E|--------------------3------------------------------------------------------| A Flying in a helicopter Watering the wildfire D A Watching the coyotes running for the hills Driving down the 405 now Dead coyotes on the roadside D A The king is watching from the shelter of the trees E D A Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes Running past the gay bars and markets Dealerships and pizza parlors Past domesticated dogs choking on the leash A big bad German Shepherd The coyotes got him surrounded And they tore that big dog into little bitty pieces Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes Last night in Benedict Canyon King Coyote in the governor?s mansion Standing in the middle of the big man?s living room The Governor could not reach his shotgun So he offered King Coyote a pension King tore the man?s heart right out of his chest Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes Now the streets are empty And the beachfronts and the studio lots The forest grows over the freeway And the vines cover whole city blocks And all you can hear is that high and lonesome sound Give Coldwater Canyon back to the coyotes