Monster On Your Back

Em A G Em A G Listen up Em I've rode this mountain seventy years I've been alive Em Choked on rocks and rattlesnakes a wonder I've survived A Em Don't think I haven't had a bronc like you try me G A B7 Ev'rytime he thinks a monster is hidin' 'round a tree Em Well the monster's on your back son better try to understand A Em The cowboy that you're fightin' now was born to this here land One day you'll earn your scars and all the fearlessness you lack G A B7 Don't worry 'bout the things that you can't see Em The monster's on your back Repeat Intro Now hear this Em I've rode through howlin' hell and wind and snow and rain I am oblivious to misery and pain A Em That iron in your gizzard it will never go away G A So long as you got work to do today Em And there's a monster on your back son get your guts up off the trail A Em We got a job to do I promise we won't fail One day you'll earn your scars and all the fearlessness you lack G A B7 Don't worry 'bout the that ornery Charlais bull Em The monster's on your back A Em You think that if you buck me off that I won't get back on G A Em You could stomp me in the ground and I'll be gone A G You think that this old man ain't tough like he once used to be A B7 Try me one more time and you will see Em There's a monster on your back son better start to understand A Em The cowboy that you're fightin' now was born to this here land One day you'll earn your scars and all the fearlessness you lack G A B7 'Til then you're gonna have to trust in me Em The monster's on your back Em A G Em A G Em There's a monster on your back