Colter Wall - Wild bill hickok
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Capo: 3.
Tuning: E A D G B E
Colter tunes his guitar down 1 whole step, if you do too, Capo on the 3rd. Chords relative to the capo.
[Verse 1]
Wild CBill was born in Illinois on Fdry and fertile Cland
FPioneer of pistoleers and a D7dead shot with each Ghand
FClaimed he was the Cquickest, there's Ffew who'd ill-aGgree
Fewer Cyet to saw this plainsman draw, still Fbreathe like you and Cme
[Verse 2]
He Cled a stagecoach freight team in his Fearly days of Clife
One Fevenin' on the Western Trail, Bill D7took the air of Gnight
And Fwho should come upon Chim, but a Fbear whom he'd Gawoke
Wild CBill produced his bowie knife and Ffashioned a new Ccoat
[Verse 3]
CKansas prairies he knew well and Fwild Missouri Ctoo
Come F1861, Bill dD7onned the Union Gblue
FNot unlike his Cdaddy, he'd Fsee no man in Gbonds
Every Cman in Jimmy Lane's brigade, of FHickok they were Cfond
[Verse 4]
While a Cmarshal in Abilene many FTexans came to Ccall
Phil FCoe told John Wes Hardin, "Wild D7Bill has got to Gfall
"He's a Fcruel and brutish Cyankee, and if Fyou don't then I Gwill"
Wild CBill put down Phil Coe, Wes FHardin's livin' Cstill
[Verse 5]
He Cmet his fate in Deadwood inFside Tom Nuttall's Cplace
AmFidst a game of poker, holdin' Aces and two GEights
When Fup stepped from beChind him the FCoward, Jack McGCall
The Cslug ripped through his auburn hair, poor FWild Bill never Csaw