{"id":2210,"date":"2021-10-03T23:28:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:09:57","slug":"my-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/my-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"My heroes have always been Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

Willie Nelson – Key of C<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/code><\/p>\n

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys\r\n----------------------------------\r\nperformed by Willie Nelson\r\n \r\n \r\n
 {t:My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys}\r\n{artist: Willie Nelson}\r\n{key: D}\r\n\r\n[D] \r\n\r\nI [D] grew up dreaming of being a cowboy\r\nAnd [G] Loving the cowboy [D] ways\r\n[D] Pursuing the life of my high riding heroes\r\nI [E7] burned up my childhood [A7] days\r\n\r\nI [D] learned all the rules of the modern day drifter\r\n[G] Don't you hold onto nothing too [D] long\r\nJust [G] take what you need from the [D] ladies then [G] leave them \r\nWith the [D] words of a [A7] sad country [D] song\r\n\r\nMy he-[G]roes have always been [D] cowboys\r\n[E7] And they still are it [A7] seems\r\n[G] Sadly in search of [D] but one step in [G] back of\r\nThem-[D]selves and their [A7] slow moving [D] dreams\r\n\r\n[D] Cowboys are special with their own brand of misery\r\nFrom [G] being alone too [D] long\r\nYou [G] could die from the cold in the arms of a [D] nightmare\r\nKnowing [E7] well your best days are [A7] gone\r\n\r\n[D] Picking up hookers instead of my pen\r\nI let [G] the words of my years fade a-[D]way\r\nOld [G] worn out saddles old [D] worn out mem-[G]ories \r\nWith [D] no one and [A7] no place to [D] stay\r\n\r\nMy he-[G]roes have always been [D] cowboys\r\n[E7] And they still are it [A7] seems\r\n[G] Sadly in search of [D] but one step in [G] back of\r\nThem-[D]selves and their [A7] slow moving [D] dreams\r\n\r\n[G] Sadly in search of [D] but one step in [G] back of\r\nThem-[D]selves and their [A7] slow moving [G] dreams [D]\t\t\t\t<\/pre>\n
This song is in 3\/4 time. It sounds best if you hit the bass note of the
\nchord on the first beat of each measure. You might want to put in some bass
\nruns like A-B-C#-D between A and D chords where it sounds right.<\/p>\n
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Willie Nelson – Key of C My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys ———————————- performed by Willie Nelson {t:My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys} {artist: Willie Nelson} {key: D} [D] I [D] grew up dreaming of being a cowboy And [G] Loving the cowboy [D] ways [D] Pursuing the life of … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMy heroes have always been Cowboys<\/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":[133,126,13,56,116,117,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}