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Cowboys Delight

John Denver
Tab
4.4(3)

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From: loonytun@primenet.com

Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab

Subject: TAB: Cowboy's Delight (John Denver)

Date: 25 Oct 1997 20:28:01 -0700

COWBOY'S DELIGHT (John Denver)

Style suggestion: A

                   -------0-----|
                   -----2---2---|
                   ---2-------2-|
                   -------------|
                   -0-----------|
                   -------------|

1 & 2 & 3 &

Notes: - The walkdown at the end of verse one will be

referred to as #1.

(intro)

A Asus4 Asus4 A (2x)

A Asus4 / A

Sing songs of the sunrise into the nigh

A Asus4 / A

the stars as a timepiece make it all right

A Asus4 / A

Make friends with the darkness, talk to the moon

A Asus4

and when the light lifts,

Asus4 A A/g# A/f# A/e D D/c# E (Esus4)

you can let out a tune

A Asus4 / A

Then to the mountains, climbed through the sky

A Asus4 / A

They showed there their whiteness, watched their gold fly

A Asus4 / A

Shared in their treasures, shook at their might

A Asus4 / C ( walkdown #2)

Spoke softly in wonders... cowboy's delight

(walkdown #2 : my best attempt at transcribing what is

probably a two-guitar part)

C

^ ^ ^

|----------0-------------|----------0-------------|
|-------1-----1----------|-------1--------1-------|
|----0-----------0-------|----0--------0----------|
|------------------------|-2----------------------|
|-3----------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

(h)

^ ^

|------------------------|------------------------|
|---1-----1--------------|------------1-----------|
|-0-2-----0--------------|---0-----0-----0--------|
|---------------2--------|------2-----------2-----|
|---3--------------------|---3--------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

(h)

^ ^

|------------------------|------------------------|
|---1-----1--------------|------------1-----------|
|-0-2-----0--------------|---0-----0-----0--------|
|---------------2--------|------2-----------2-----|
|---3--------------------|---3--------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

(h)

^ ^

|------------------------|------------------------|
|---1-----1--------------|------------------------|
|-0-2-----0--------------|---0--------------------|
|---------------2--------|---------3-----2--------|
|---3--------------------|---3--------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

D D/C#

|------------------------|----------2-------------|
|----------3-------------|-------3-----3----------|
|-------2-----2----------|----2-----------2-------|
|----4-----------4-------|------------------------|
|-5----------------------|-4----------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

Bm7 D/a

|------------------------|----------2-------------|
|----------3-------------|-------3-----3----------|
|-------2-----2----------|----2-----------2-------|
|----4-----------4-------|------------------------|
|-2----------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|-5----------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

Bm7 D/a

|------------------------|----------2-------------|
|----------3-------------|-------3-----3----------|
|-------2-----2----------|----2-----------2-------|
|----4-----------4-------|------------------------|
|-2----------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|-5----------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

Bm7 D/a

|------------------------|----------2-------------|
|----------3-------------|-------3----------------|
|-------2-----2----------|----2-------------------|
|----4-----------4-------|----------------4-------|
|-2----------------------|-------------2----------|
|------------------------|-5----------------------|

1 . 2 . 3 . 1 . 2 . 3 .

Sing...

A Asus4 / A

(Sing) songs of the sunrise into the night

A Asus4 / A

the song of the mountains... cowboy's delight

A Asus4 / A

the stars as a timepiece make it all right

A Asus4

Sing songs of the mountain...

Asus4 A... (into walkdown #1, then #2)

cowboy's delight

(intro & end)

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