Goodnight Loving Trail

C C C C G C C7 F C G C F C G Too old to wrangle or ride on the swing C You beat the triangle and you curse everything C7 F If dirt was a kingdom, they you'd be the king C G C F On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail G G7 Our Old Woman's lonesome tonight C G C F Your French harp blows like the low bawling calf G G7 It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin C Get in there and blow out the light C G With your snake oil and herbs and your liniments, too C You can do anything that a doctor can do C7 F Except find a cure for your own god damned stew C G C F On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail G G7 Our Old Woman's lonesome tonight C G C F Your French harp blows like the low bawling calf G G7 It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin C Get in there and blow out the light C G The campfire's out and the coffee's all gone C The boys are all up and they're raising the dawn C7 F You're still sitting there, all lost in a song C G C F On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail G G7 Our Old Woman's lonesome tonight C G C F Your French harp blows like the low bawling calf G G7 It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin C Get in there and blow out the light C G Yeah I know that some day I'll be just the same C Wearing an apron instead of a name C7 F There's nothing can change it, there's no one to blame C G For the desert's a book wrote in lizards and sage C Easy to look like an old torn out page C7 F Faded and cracked with the colors of age C G C F On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail G G7 Our Old Woman's lonesome tonight C G C F Your French harp blows like the low bawling calf G G7 It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin C Get in there and blow out the light