Ian Tyson - Claude Dallas

      
 
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 Sung by: Ian Tyson
 
 Capo 2nd Fret
 
 Intro: Am G Dm F
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 1.In a land the Spanish once had called the Northern Mystery
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 Where rivers run and disappear And the Mustang still lives free
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 By the Devil?s wash and the coyote hole In the wild Owyee Range
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 Somewhere in the sage tonight The wind calls out his name Aye Aye Aye
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 2.Come gather round me buckaroos And a story I will tell
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 ?Bout the fugitive Claude Dallas Who just broke out of jail
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 You might think this tale is history From before the West was won
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 But the events that I?ll describe took place in 1981
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 3. He was born out in Virginia Left home when school was through
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 In the deserts of Nevada He became a buckaroo
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 He learned the ways of cattle He learned to sit a horse
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 And he always packed a pistol And he practiced deadly force
 
 Chorus 1:
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 Then Claude he became a trapper He dreamed of the bygone days
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 He studied bobcat logic In the wild and silent ways
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 In the bloody runs near paradise In the monitors down south
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 Trapping cats and coyotes Living hand and mouth Aye Aye Aye
 
 4. Then Claude took to living all alone Out many miles from town
 A friend Jim Stevens brought supplies And he stayed to hang around
 That day two wardens Pogue and Elms Drove in to check Claude out
 They were seeking violations And to see what Claude?s about
 5. Now Claude he had hung some venison He had a bobcat pelt or two
 Pogue claimed they were out of season He says, ?Dallas you?re all through?
 But Dallas would not leave his camp He refused to go to town
 As the wind howled through the bull camp They stared each other down
 Chorus 2.
 It?s hard to say what happened next Perhaps we?ll never know
 They were going to take Claude into jail And he?d vowed he?d never go
 Jim Stevens heard the gunfire And when he turned around
 Bill Pogue was fallin? backwards Conley Elms he fell face down Aye Aye Aye
 6. Jim Stevens walked on over There was a gun near Bill Pogue?s hand
 It?s hard to say who?d drawn his first But Claude had made his stand
 Claude said, ?I?m justified Jim? They were going to cut me down?
 A man?s got a right to hang some meat When he?s livin? this far from town?
 7. It took 18 men and 15 months To finally run Claude down
 In the sage outside paradise They drove him to the ground
 Convicted up in Idaho Manslaughter by decree
 Thirty years at maximum But soon Claude would break free
 Chorus 3.
 There?s two sides to this story There may be no right or wrong
 There may be no right or wrong The lawmen and the renegade
 Have graced a thousand songs So the story is an old one
 Conclusion?s hard to draw But Claude?s out in the sage tonight
 He may be the last outlaw Aye Aye Aye
 Repeat 1st verse