CAPO on the second fret VERSE 1 C9 G C9 G Look off down the highway at the glittering lights C9 G E D4 Like windshield glass on the shoulder tonight C9 D4 Em7 As the diesels come grinding on up from the plains G C9 D4 All bunched up like pearls on a string G C9 G And I guess time don't mean nothin' Not nothin' at all C9 G Em7 D4 And out on the horizon the broken stars fall C9 D4 Em7 Old broken stars they fall down on the land G C9 D4 G And get mixed together with the lights of Cheyenne VERSE 2 C9 G C9 G Well I've been up all night and I'm down on my back C9 G Em7 D4 Workin' the counter to take up the slack C9 D4 Em7 Cause the money tree's light and the whiskey stream's low G C9 D4 You ain't worked a week since July G C9 G You say the gravel pit's hiring After the first C9 G Em7 D4 But you don't have the nature for that kind of work C9 D4 Em7 You might get hired on But you won't make a hand G C9 D4 G And I'll still be here lookin' at the lights of Cheyenne CHORUS D4 You stand in the sky C9 G with your feet on the ground D4 C9 Never suspectin' a thing D4 But if the sky were to C9 G move you might never be found Em7 G/f# C9 Never be heard from again VERSE 3 C9 G C9 G We go on good behavior when our youngest comes home C9 G Em7 D4 She comes up from Boulder but she never stays long C9 D4 Em7 And that oldest still fights me like she was 18 G C9 D4 Stopped in for a 6-pack awhile ago G C9 G And she's got a cowboy problem And this last one's a sight C9 G Em7 D4 All dressed up like Gunsmoke for Saturday night C9 D4 Em7 And they were off to the bars for lack of a plan G C9 D4 G Racing the stars to the lights of Cheyenne (little solo part goes here) VERSE 4 C9 G C9 G And you've kept all that meanness inside you so long C9 G Em7 D4 You'd fight with a fence post if it looked at your wrong C9 D4 Em7 Well the post won't hit back, and it won't call the law G C9 D4 I look at your right, or I don't look at all G C9 G Now take a crumpled up soft pack and give it a shake C9 G Em7 D4 Out by the dumpster on a cigarette break C9 D4 Em7 With one eye swelled up from the back of your hand G C9 D4 G And the other eye fixed on the lights of Cheyenne - chorus- VERSE 5 C9 G C9 G Now there's antelope grazing in range of my gun C9 G Em7 D4 Come opening weekend you won't see a one C9 D4 Em7 They'll vanish like ghosts `cause somehow they know G C9 D4 But now they're up to the fence in the early dawn G C9 G And it's warming up nicely for this time of year C9 G Em7 D4 The creeks are still frozen but the roads are all clear C9 D4 Em7 And I don't have it in me to make one more stand G C9 D4 G Though I never much cared f or the lights of Cheyenne