Rodeo Wind (CHORDS) by Jerry Jeff Walker
[Verse 1]~
C F
Even as she sleeps,.. she feels his restless turning
C G
As he struggles with an old dream all night long
C F
And when she awakes,.. she turns to reassure him
C G
She whispers to a shadows and finds him gone
[Verse 2]~
C F
Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning
C G
She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song
C F
She watches as he works,.. with his riggins and his saddle
C G C
A sudden chill runs through her in the still of the not quite dawn
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
[Verse 3]~
C
One sure way to lose him
F
Is to try and make him stay
C G
He can't explain he don't even know himself
C
But the force that drew her to him
F
Has just gotta break away
C
And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel
G C
Is the only thing that helps
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
[Bridge]~
Am G F C
Now it all makes sense,.. those signs she's been seeing all along
Am G F C
She feels like such a fool,.. a woman ought to know
F C F
Just the other day,.. she saw him sittin' out on the south fence
C G C
Throwing stones at prairie dogs,.. and staring down the road
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
C F
Even as she sleeps,.. she feels his restless turning
C G
As he struggles with an old dream all night long
C F
And when she awakes,.. she turns to reassure him
C G
She whispers to a shadows and finds him gone
[Verse 2]~
C F
Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning
C G
She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song
C F
She watches as he works,.. with his riggins and his saddle
C G C
A sudden chill runs through her in the still of the not quite dawn
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
[Verse 3]~
C
One sure way to lose him
F
Is to try and make him stay
C G
He can't explain he don't even know himself
C
But the force that drew her to him
F
Has just gotta break away
C
And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel
G C
Is the only thing that helps
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
[Bridge]~
Am G F C
Now it all makes sense,.. those signs she's been seeing all along
Am G F C
She feels like such a fool,.. a woman ought to know
F C F
Just the other day,.. she saw him sittin' out on the south fence
C G C
Throwing stones at prairie dogs,.. and staring down the road
[Chorus]~
F C
She's losing him,.. to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul,.. when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls,.. he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts,.. on the rodeo wind
