Colter Wall - Cypress Hills And The Big Country

Colter is usually alternating the bass with the tumb.
So the picking pattern would be: Pick root, down, pick 5th, up, down, up

[Intro]
C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C

[Verse 1]
C
You can see the bear paws
G
The old man on his back
Prickly pears, a blue moon
Am
In the short and native grass
C Cadd2/B Am
There’s a bunch of empty beer cans
Am/G F Em Dm
In an old, loose mineral sack
G C
Give you some idea of where you’re at

[Verse 2]
C G
Buck brush and sage as far as you can see

It’s the south slopes of the hills
Am
Turns to pine and poplar trees
C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm
Cattle all grazing up and down a big coulee
G
Under Charley Russel skies
C
Like a blue and purple sea

[Chorus]
Am
Cypress Hills
G
And the big country below
Am
Where life is still
G G7
And a man can be alone
C Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
Am Am/G F Em Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time
G C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

[Solo]
C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C
C G Am C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C

[Chorus]
Am
Cypress Hills
G
And the big country below
Am
Where life is still
G G7
And a man can be alone
C Cadd2/B
You can duck underneath
Am Am/G F Em Dm
All your trials and troubles for a time
G C
Like a pronghorn underneath a bottom wire

[Post-Chorus]
C Cadd2/B Am Am/G
You can sweat and cuss and wonder why
F Em Dm
They say our west has died
G
When the folks around the Cypress Hills
C
Still drag calves to the fire

[Outro]
C Cadd2/B Am Am/G F Em Dm G C