Bald Butte Chords

[Chorus]
  C                                    C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high
   F
Carry me to Bald Butte
                                 C
Where the plains wrap round the sky
         G                               C
You can dig a hole on Bald Butte when I die
 
[Verse 1]
  C
Henry was born on Bald Butte
                      C7
A paint horse he did ride
  F
Well he roped him in Alberta
                          C
Broke him on the Montana line
  G                      
Tore him a trail through 
                      C
the northwest countryside
 
[Verse 2]
  C
Henry took to stealing
                   C7
Robbing on the CP Rail
 F
He got the devil on his shoulders
                         C
And the law man on his tail
             G
You better ride, Henry ride
                                     C
You ain't got no friends to go your bail
 
[Verse 3]
  C
Well he rode across the Grey Back camp
                C7
Up in Cypress Hills
  F
They said they left the US nation
                          C
On the day that Richmond fell
  G                                    C
They whistled Dixie and set him up a still
 
[Verse 4]
  C
Henry woke the next morn
                         C7
Like a corpse from the grave
  F
Half blind and twice as haggard
                             C
He took a cast iron to the brain
       G                           
They stole his horse and the rifle 
                C
that shared his name
 
[Verse 5]
  C
And he tracked them former Johnny Rebs
                              C7
Through the prairie and the trees
 F
Up old Castle Mountain
                    C
Cross the river Wapiti
 G                                     C
Low and behold, what do you think he sees
 
I see my paint
           F                    C
I see my rifle that shares my name
            G
I see them men that done me wrong
                                  C
Lord, I'm gonna do them just the same
 
[Verse 6]
  C
Henry grabbed his rifle
               C7
Up off of the ground
               F
He kissed the ever-loving barrel
                           C
And he shot them old boys down
      G                                C
They hit the dirt, he revelled in the soumd
 
[Verse 7]
  C
Now he's back up in the saddle
               C7
Back up on the top
         F
When he felt that southern slug
                               C
Chew a hole right through his gut
    G
He thought he killed them all
            C
But he had not
 
[Verse 9]
  C
That paint took off a running
                          C7
Through the water and the mud
    F
No earthly force in this whole world
                        C
Could stop that 'Berta stud
  G                              C
Henry sat there laughing up his blood
 
 C
And he was singing
 
[Chorus]
C                                        C7
Bald Butte, Bald Butte so lofty and so high
  F
Carry me to Bald Butte
                                     C
Where the plains wrap round the the sky
         G                               C
You can dig a hole on Bald Butte when I die