{"id":12371,"date":"2022-08-19T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:44:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:44:31","slug":"cowboy-rides-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/cowboy-rides-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy Rides Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George Strait<\/code><\/span> – \u2606<\/span><\/p>\n
[Verse 1] - - - <\/span>I [D] knew the stakes were high right from the [G] start.  <\/span><\/span>[A] When she dealt the cards I dealt my [D] heart. [A] <\/span><\/span>Now [D] I just found a game that I can't [G] play, <\/span><\/span>[A] this is where the cowboy rides [D] away.<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - - <\/span>And my [D] heart is sinking like the setting [G] sun,  <\/span><\/span>[A] setting on the things I wish I'd [D] done.  [A] <\/span><\/span>It's [D] time to say goodbye to [G] yesterday, <\/span><\/span>[A] this is where the cowboy rides [D] away.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>\r\n \r\n[Interlude]         <\/span>D<\/span> G<\/span> A<\/span> D<\/span><\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n<\/span>We've been [D] in and out of love and in [G] between, <\/span><\/span>[A] Now we play the final showdown [D] scene.  [A]  <\/span><\/span>and as the [D] credits roll a sad song starts to [G] play, <\/span><\/span>[A] this is where the cowboy rides [D] away.<\/span><\/span> \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> \r\n<\/span><\/span>[Outro] - - - - - <\/span>Oh the [D] last goodbye's the hardest one to [G] say,  [A] This is where the cowboy rides [D] away.\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
George Strait – \u2606 [Verse 1] – – – I [D] knew the stakes were high right from the [G] start. [A] When she dealt the cards I dealt my [D] heart. [A] Now [D] I just found a game that I can’t [G] play, [A] this is where the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGCowboy Rides Away<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,24,120,133,126,265,56,116,117,123,115,68,131,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-filter","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-love-songs","category-power-outage","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27555,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions\/27555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}