A            A7                  D                                  
Let's have a hand for that young cowboy
                              A                            
And wish him better luck next time.
                           E7                               
I hope we'll see him up in Fargo
                              A    A7                          
Or somewhere farther down the line 
                         D                                 
This time he sure drew a bad one
                      A                                    
One that nobody could ride
                         E7                                 
By the way he pulled his hat on
                               A                           
You know he'd be there for the fight

[Chorus]
             A7           D        G D                             
And it's the classic contradiction
                   A                                       
The unavoidable affliction.
                             E7                            
And it don't take much to predict, son
                  A    A7                                      
The way it always goes 
                            D         G D                      
'Cause one day she says she loves you 
                             A                             
And the next she'll be tired of you
                          E7                                
N' push'll always come to shove you
                     A                                    
On that midnight rodeo

[Instrumental]

                  A7     D                                      
He almost made it to the buzzer
                          A                                
Somehow he gave up in the end
                           E7                               
He put one hand around the other
                            A  A7                              
And let that pick-up man on in 
                          D                                
It was his last chance to ride it
                        A                                  
Now he'll have to move along
                         E7                                 
But he knows back in his mind, that
                     A                                     
He won't be away for long

[Chorus]

                A7                  D      G D                      
So let's have a hand for that young cowboy 
                              A                            
And wish him better luck next time
                           E7                               
I hope we'll see him up in Fargo
                               A                           
Or somewhere  farther down the line