Tonart: C major•
Verse 1
C
The other side of the Great
F
Divide is cattle country.
G
C
A land that can make you hard as nails.
F
The working dog's a legend out there,
a good one's worth two men.
G
But life's no bed of roses
Gm
G
C
for man's best friend.
There's a bloke they call the mongrel,
F
lives out west of here.
G
C
On a red dirt block with around 500 head
You wouldn't find a meaner man
C
G
Horses, dogs or cattle,
C
he's a mongrel to them all
Am
His wife came from the city,
F
she was a timid little thing
C
Didn't know what she was in
G
for when she married him
C
The neighbors hardly saw her,
F
when they did she turned away
Dm
C
G
But the makeup on the bruises
C
told them all she didn't say
And the story goes
the only thing
G
F
that kept that woman sane
G
C
Was a little calpy cross she raised by hand
The runt of the litter,
F
the poor thing looked half -sick
G
If the mongrel had his way,
C
he would have drowned him
Then one day a close relation
G
And she went down to the funeral
G
C
Came back a few days later,
F
C
completely mortified
Dm
C
G
To find her little pride and joy
Am
And the best excuse the mongrel had
F
was somehow he'd forgotten
C
To put out food and water
G
for her precious little pup
C
Besides, he was too busy
F
C
Dm
with all he had to do
F
G
She should have thought about that
C
before she shot through
Now the mongrel was a drinker,
F
and a crazy one at that,
G
C
used to go on benders now and then.
So people in the district
F
weren't overly concerned
G
if he didn't make it into town
C
for several weeks on end.
But when a month or so had passed
F
and nothing had been heard,
C
thought he'd take a look around.
When he got to the property,
F
the place was deathly quiet.
C
G
Then behind the shed
C
he heard the strangest sound.
Am
When he went to check it out,
C
Near a tub of fetid water
F
C
Dm
and a bag of dry dog food
C
G
C
The emaciated mongrel howled deliriously
Am
Of course they never found a wife
F
or the sad and sickly pup
C
Some say the cops didn't really try,
G
some say they just gave up
F
G
F
well he's nothing like the man he used to be
C
G
Some nights he even lets his
Ah, the other side of the great divide
G
C
A land that tends to make you hard as nails
The working dog's a legend out there,
F
a good one's worth two men
G
And that's my little story
C
about man's best friend you
Wie hat dir der Song gefallen?
Du musst dich , um eine Bewertung abzugeben.
TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteC F G Gm Am...
Beliebte Akkorde weltweit
Meistgespielte Akkorde & Tabs aller Nutzer
Neu hinzugefügt
Kürzlich hinzugefügte Akkorde & Tabs