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The Stranger

Bobby Bare

RockMedium for beginners7 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
F
D××
G
A7×
D7××
Am×

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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Intro
 
         C                               F              C 
From the west there came a stranger I'll tell his story now 
        C                                    D                G 
And the reason they called him stranger is because he loved a cow 
     C                                    F               C 
Yeah you might think that lovin' a cow is somethin' sorta strange 
    F                    C    A7    D7         G      C 
But oh my friend did you ever spend six months on the range 
 
Verse 
 
                  G                       C 
Well the days get long and the nights get cold 
                  G                         C 
And a feller gets lonely and a feller grows old 
                       F                                                          C                   Am 
And a feller starts to wonderin' if he'll ever find a pretty little golden-haired bluey-eyed girl somehow 
                  D  G            C 
And a feller goes out and fucks a cow 
 
 
               G                C 
A-lee-da-lo-da-lay-hee, yuh-hoo-hoo 
               G                C 
A-lee-da-lo-da-lay-hee, yuh-hoo-hoo (get along little doggie) 
            F                       C       Am 
A-yee-ho-da-lay-hee, woo-hoo-doo-de-ho, lay-hoo 
G                               C 
It's your misfortune not my own 
   G                                               C  
Ah come here you little old brown-eyed darlin' you, I love you 
             G                         C  
Yo-da-lee-da-lay-hee, yuh-hoo-hoo-hoo, woo-woo-woo, wow wow 
 
LoL 
F                                               C 
I don't ever fool around with no ham and cheese 
          
 

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Chord set

C · F · D · G · A7 · D7 · Am

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.