[Intro] G C F D G D|--------3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3--------3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|-----0---0-|-----0---0-|-2----| A|--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|-----1---1-|-----1---1-|-3----| F|--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|-----0---0-|---0-0---0-|-2----| C|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|---0-------|-2h--------|---2h-| G|----0------------------------------------0--------------------------0----|-2h----2---|-----------|------| D|--2h--3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----2h--3---3---2h---2h---2h---2h-----|-----------|-----------|------| [Verse 1] G Unfit was I for the Scarlett Mounties D G Dandy dude townies, drunkard down and outies G But I knowed some boys that I once called family D G Mounted high in the year of '85 [Verse 2] G Major Stewart went down and he left his cows D G Back in Fort McLeod when the news circled 'round G That the Métis had enough and there's rustlers on the prowl D G And Assiniboia needs us boys to straighten her out [Chorus] G Rocky Mountain Rangers, riding o'er the plains D G Serve all the western cavalry, there's none any stranger G Rocky Mountain Rangеrs well equipped for dangеr D G Mounted high in the year of '85 [Instrumental] G D G G D G [Verse 3] G One evenings patrol on Cypress Hills D G We drank up our fill and the hour was still G When a Winchester shot like the ringing of a bell D G Some boys of Gabriel Dumont's are shooting us to hell [Verse 4] G So it's raise up your six-guns, lest we be undone D G Rake some fur, slack them reins, let your ponies run, run G How I survived I may never understand, son D G Woolly times in the year of '85 [Chorus] G Rocky Mountain Rangers, riding o'er the plains D G Serve all the western cavalry, there's none any stranger G Rocky Mountain Rangers well equipped for danger D G Mounted high in the year of '85 [Outro] D7 G G D G Disbanded in the year of '85