G                                C
Let's have a hand for that young cowboy 
                              G
And wish him better luck next time
                           D7
I hope we'll see him up in Fargo 
                              G
Or somewhere farther down the line

                         C
This time he sure drew a bad one 
                      G
One that nobody could ride
                         D7
By the way he pulled his hat on 
                               G
You know he'd be there for the fight

                           C
And it's the classic contradiction
                  G
The unavoidable affliction
                             D7
And it don't take much to predict son
                  G
The way it always goes

                             C
Cause one day she'll say she loves you 
                             G
And the next she'll be tired of you
                           D7
And push'll always come to shove you 
                   G
On that midnight rodeo

Repeat #1

                         C
He almost made it to the buzzer 
                          G
Somehow he gave up in the end
                           D7
He put one hand around the other 
                            G
And let that pick up man on in

                          C
It was his last chance to ride it 
                        G
Now he'll have to move along
                         D7
But he knows back in his mind that
                     G
He won't be away for long

Repeat #1