Capo 2 

Intro: Am 

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Early one morning at the St. James Hospital 
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Early one morning morn in the month of May 
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When I looked through the window and a'spied a dear cowboy 
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A dear cowboy as cold as the clay 

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Set ye down by me and hear my sad story 
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Set ye down by me and sing me a song      
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For my poor head is aching and my sad heart is breaking 
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I'm a poor cowboy that knowed he done wrong 


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Send for that doctor to come n'heal up my body 
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And send for the preacher to come and pray for my soul 
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For my poor head is aching and my sad heart is breaking 
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I'm a poor cowboy and hell is my doom 

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Get sixteen pretty maidens to come and carry my coffin 
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Sixteen pretty maidens to come and sing me a song 
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And tell 'em to bring some o'them sweet smelling roses 
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So they can't smell me as they tote me along 


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Beat the drums slowly and play the fife lowly 
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Play the death march as ye carry me along 
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Throw bunches of lilies all over my coffin 
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Thare goes a poor cowboy that knowed he done wrong.