{"id":24587,"date":"2025-06-27T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=24587"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:31:19","slug":"night-riders-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/night-riders-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Riders Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"

GARTH BROOKS<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 1] – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] One night while I was out a [F] ridin’ – – – – <\/span>[C] The grave yard shift, midnight ’til [G] dawn – – – –\u00a0<\/span>The [F] moon was [G] bright as a [C] readin’ [Am] light – – – –\u00a0<\/span>For a [F] letter from an [G] old friend back [C] home<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\u00a0 <\/span>N.C.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>And he asked me – – – –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[F] Why do you [G] ride for your [C] money – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[F] Tell me why do you [G] rope for short [C] pay – – – – – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[F] You ain’t a’gettin’ no-[G]-where – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] And you’re losin’ your [Am] share [G] [F] – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Boy, you [F] must have gone [G] crazy out [C] there<\/span><\/p>\n

[Verse 2] – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] He said last night I ran into [F] Jenny. – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] She’s married and has a good [G] life. – – – –\u00a0<\/span>And [F] boy you sure missed the [G] track. – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] When you never come [Am] back. – – – –\u00a0<\/span>She’s the [F] perfect pro-[G]-fessional’s [C] wife.<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS }\u00a0 <\/span>N.C.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>And she asked me – – – –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[F] Why does he [G] ride for your [C] money? – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[F] Tell me why does he [G] rope for short [C] pay? – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[F] He ain’t a’gettin’ no-[G]-where – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[C] And he’s losin’ your [Am] share [G] [F] – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Boy, he [F] must have gone [G] crazy out [C] there<\/span><\/p>\n

[Bridge]<\/span>
\nAh but they’ve [F] never [G] seen the [C] Northern [Am] Lights<\/span>
\nThey’ve [F] never seen a [G] hawk on the [C] wing<\/span>
\nThey’ve [F] never spent [G] spring on the [C] Great [Am] Divide [G] [F]\u00a0<\/span>
\nAnd they’ve [F] never heard ole’ [G] camp cookie [C] sing<\/span><\/p>\n

MODULATE – [Verse] – – – –\u00a0<\/span>Well I [D] read up the last of my [G] letter – – – –\u00a0<\/span>And I [D] tore off the stamp for black [A] Jim – – – –\u00a0<\/span>And when [G] Billy rode [A] up to [D] relieve [Bm] me – – – –\u00a0<\/span>He just [G] looked at my [A] letter and [D] grinned<\/span><\/p>\n

{ CHORUS } – – – – <\/span>N.C.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span>And he said now – – – –\u00a0<\/span><\/span>[G] Why do they [A] ride for your [D] money?\u00a0 – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[G] Tell me why do they [A] rope for short [D] pay? – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[G] They ain’t a’gettin’ no-[A]-where, – – – –\u00a0<\/span>[D] And they’re losin’ your [Bm] share [A] [G] \u00a0– – – – <\/span>Boy, they [G] must have gone [A] crazy out [D] there.<\/span><\/p>\n

So they all [G] must be [A] crazy out [D] there.<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GARTH BROOKS [Verse 1] – – – –\u00a0[C] One night while I was out a [F] ridin’ – – – – [C] The grave yard shift, midnight ’til [G] dawn – – – –\u00a0The [F] moon was [G] bright as a [C] readin’ [Am] light – – – –\u00a0For a … CLICK TO VIEW SONGNight Riders Lament<\/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":[133,126,13,175,176,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-garth-brooks","category-jerry-jeff-walker","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587","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=24587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27660,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions\/27660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}