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Rodeo Wind
by Chris Wall


C                        F
Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning
         C                                   G
As he struggles with an old dream all night long
C                         F
And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him
     C                       G
She whispers to a shadow and finds him gone

Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning
She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song
She watches as he takes, his old saddle from the wall
A sudden chill runs through her in the cold of the not quite dawn

Chorus:
              F                 C
She's losing him, to the rodeo wind
                        G                     C
That blows through his soul, when the summer begins
                  F                           C        F
When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again
                       C    G              C          
But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind


One sure way to lose him
Is to try and make him stay
He can't explain he don't even know himself
But the force that drew her to him
Has just gotta break away
And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel 
Is the only thing that helps


Bridge:
Am                G                           F                 C
Now it all makes sense, those signs she's been seeing all along
Am              G           F                     C
She feels like such a fool, a woman ought to know
                               C                F
Just the other day, she saw him sittin' on the south fence
                     C         G                      C
Throwing stones at prarie dogs, and staring down the road

Chorus


This is played open.  If my memory serves me right (this here is from the Chris Wall version) Jerry Jeff plays it with a capo at the 5th fret on the Live at Gruene Hall album therefore:

C=G
F=C
G=D
Am=Em

And I think he does it differently live nowadays, in case you're playing along from the audience. 

Tabbed by Michael Shaw <mshaw@io.com>