Cypress Hills And The Big Country

Colter is usually alternating the bass with the tumb. So the picking pattern would be: Pick root, down, pick 5th, up, down, up Intro C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C [Verse 1] C You can see the bear paws G The old man on his back Prickly pears, a blue moon Am In the short and native grass C Cadd2/B Am There's a bunch of empty beer cans Am/G F Em Dm In an old, loose mineral sack G C Give you some idea of where you're at [Verse 2] C G Buck brush and sage as far as you can see It's the south slopes of the hills Am Turns to pine and poplar trees C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm Cattle all grazing up and down a big coulee G Under Charley Russel skies C Like a blue and purple sea Chorus Am Cypress Hills G And the big country below Am Where life is still G G7 And a man can be alone C Cadd2/B You can duck underneath Am Am/G F Em Dm All your trials and troubles for a time G C Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire Solo C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C Chorus Am Cypress Hills G And the big country below Am Where life is still G G7 And a man can be alone C Cadd2/B You can duck underneath Am Am/G F Em Dm All your trials and troubles for a time G C Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire [Post-Chorus] C Cadd2/B Am Am/G You can sweat and cuss and wonder why F Em Dm They say our west has died G When the folks around the Cypress Hills C Still drag calves to the fire Outro C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C