[Intro: ]A D A A E A - Strum each chord striking 
                     the root note first 
 
A                          D         A 
On the side of the highway trying to sleep 
                          D               E 
dreamin of a new love she knows she can't keep 
     A                           D        A 
He's back down the road three or four rodeo's 
                                   E            A 
Might've been her dream cowboy but she'll never know 
                      D           A 
Ridin' like the wind, feeling so alive 
                                  D           E 
with the wind in her hair and the dust in her eyes 
    A                           D          A 
the spotlights are turning from night into day 
                                E          A 
and just for a little while the pain goes away 


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    G       D              A 
The cowboys tell them they love them 
          G           D            A 
but their gone by the dawn's early light 
                              D          E 
they come and they go but the pain never shows 
      D     E           A 
Cause rodeo girls don't cry 
 
 
She's given it up and gone home before 
but it felt like a part of her dying 
No one could know but the Lord up above 
that rodeo girls don't cry 
 
 
The cowboys tell them they love them 
but their gone by the dawn's early light 
they come and they go but the pain never shows 
Cause rodeo girls don't cry 
Rodeo girls don't cry 
I thought everybody knew 
rodeo girls don't cry