Pumpkin Cowboy Chords by Brian David Gilbert

Brian David Gilbert - Pumpkin Cowboy Chords


[Refrain]
Ab
Pumpkin Cowboy (Pumpkin Cowboy)
 
[Verse 1]
       Db           Ab
He's a cowboy and a pumpkin
                        Eb
And he loves his cattle so
            Db             Ab
But there's no way he gets lumped in
     C                Fm
With most cowboys you know
     Ab
He's no outlaw and he won't quick draw
    Bb          Eb
For he despises violence
       Db       Ab
Take a fireside moon over your saloon
      Db   Eb           Ab
As he much prefers the silence
 
[Refrain]
Ab
Pumpkin Cowboy (Pumpkin Cowboy)
 
[Verse 2]
Well, it ain't no bluff that life is tough
                       Eb
For a gourd out on the range
        Ab
But for all the woes in the life he chose
      C7             Fm
He's never seemed to change
       Db    Ab         Db
With a smile wide and a kerchief tied
                      Eb
Around his neck-slash-waist
         Db    Ab
And he's never riled when a cow runs wild
         Db                   Ab
As he'll lasso them post-haste!
 
[Refrain]
Ab
Pumpkin Cowboy (Pumpkin Cowboy)
Bb
Pumpkin Cowboy! (Pumpkin Cowboy)
 
[Verse 3]
        Eb                      Bb
But one day when Pumpkin Cowboy was
                   F
Out tending to his steer
  Eb         Bb
A frightened child came from town
       D                 Gm
With a message soft but clear
    Eb
The townsfolk said that he'd end up dead
                        F
If he didn't heed their warning
    Eb         Bb
For they heard that the Cowboy Cat
      Eb           F           Bb
Would be there the next morning
 
[Refrain]
Bb
Pumpkin Cowboy! (Pumpkin Cowboy)
 
[Verse 4]
                  Eb          Bb
It was well known through the prairie
                F     Bb
Cowboy Cat had ruined lives
         Eb             Bb
And they said he was a devilish man
     D                  Gm
Who liked to play with knives
     Eb                   D
He'd steal your purse and do much worse
                       Gm
If a hairball made him grouchy
       D
If you summed up some of the things he's done
                                D7
With one word, it'd be "ouchie"
            D
(Ouchie, Ouchie!)
 
[Verse 5]
       Eb                        Bb
Though he had heard tales while on the trail
                      F
Of the feline fiend reviled
Eb              Bb
Pumpkin Cowboy couldn't leave
        D
For his cow was now with child
         Eb
If they ran away, she'd have to stay
              C          F
And she might not survive
      Eb        F            Bb
So he waited by her side all night
        Eb        F        Bb
For the scoundrel to arrive
 
[Refrain]
Bb
Pumpkin Cowboy! (Pumpkin Cowboy)
C
Pumpkin Cowboy! (Pumpkin Cowboy!)
 
[Verse 6]
    F           C
Our hero hadn't realized
 
That he'd begun to doze
        F                  C
And his mind was awfully groggy
        E       Am
When he finally arose
   F                      E
He touched the ground and sadly found
   Am
The thing that he had feared:
               E
While he slept under the moonless night
 
His cow had disappeared!
      D        G        E      A
But a moo came from the nearby field
        F                  E
And the cry was harsh and chill
     D               Am
Cat Cowboy held our hero's cow
       F                   E
And it looked like he could kill
 
[Verse 7]
        F               G
Pumpkin Cowboy spoke in hurried yells
      E               Am
As he pleaded with the cat
     F                G
He'd give him all his ranch and land
            Am
He'd let him take his hat!
         E
But the rascal took no compromise
 
No hat, nor, ranch, nor plain!
   Am        Em      Am
He said the thing he wanted most was
F               A
just to inflict pain!
 
[Verse 8]
                D
And as Pumpkin Cowboy heard this
   B              C
He ran at such a clip
     A               D
That Cowboy Cat got startled
        Eb             A
And the knife began to slip
         D
And they crashed into each other
 
Cat and Pumpkin, flesh and blade!
 
N.C.
 
[Verse 9]
(Spoken)
                                                                     F5
And the knife fell to the arid ground. And the scoundrel stood, then swayed...
 
Fm
 
[Verse 10]
(Sung)
Cm   Db            Ab
Cat Cowboy crumped to the dirt
 
And Pumpkin kneeled beside
    Db              Ab
And cow stood vigil next to him
   C              Fm
As Pumpkin Cowboy cried
   Db         Ab    Db     Ab
He tipped his hat at Cowboy Cat
    Db              Eb
And stood without a sound
         Db       Ab      Eb       Ab
And when townfolk came to cheer his name
    Db   Eb     Fm
Our hero wasn't found
 
[Verse 11]
(Spoken)
         Db         Ab            Db                     Eb
Some say he started wandering for greener fields to roam
             Db               Ab        C                     Fm
But he didn't bring his cattle, and his horse stayed there at home
 
[Verse 12]
(Sung)
    Db        Ab        Db
The very next morn, the calf was born
                         Eb
The town's own pride and joy
        Db         Eb
And the folks will regale you
       Ab         Db
With a Gord-geous tale...
    Bbm       Eb7            Ab
The tale of a Pumpkin Cowboy!
 
[Refrain]
Ab               Dbm
Pumpkin Cowboy! (Pumpkin Cowboy!)
        Ab
Pumpkin Cowboy!