My Wild Frontier

INTRO: C

C
How do I feel, when I feel so alone?

Like a sad armadillo, across this desert I roam
          F                        Am
I've been stripped down bare 'til I break
                      C
Still the wheel keeps turning



Had me a sweet one, I tell no lie

Summer nights in the cornfields, when the corn gets so high
            F                             Am
We traveled clear across Wichita, heading north
              C        F  C
Leaving civilization


CHORUS 1:
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There were highways to get across
    Am     G   F    C    G C
And places far from here
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And I was his lonesome prairie
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And he was my wild frontier


C
Harvested peaches in a small border town

Saved all our wages, put ten percent down
                            F               Am
I never thought I'd see the world through a child's eyes
              C
Until early December



Then one Calgary morning, still as glass

While my baby lay sleeping, an angel slipped past
             F                           Am
And with one breath said, "I'm taking him back
                 C        F  C
To his Father in Heaven"


CHORUS 2:
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Through gravel and ice and new-fallen snow
   Am      G       F  C     G C
I held him through my tears
        F         G        Em  Am
Because I was his lonesome prairie
    Dm7       G7       F
And he was my wild frontier


BRIDGE:

Get along, get along, get along

Get along, get along, get along
C          F
Oh, oh, oh

Get along, get along, get along

Get along, get along
Dm      G
Oh, oh, oh


CHORUS 3:
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And sometimes at night, I swear I can hear him
Am      G   F  C     G C
Calling out so clear
        F             G        Em  Am
He says, "You were my lonesome prairie
    Dm7            G7       F
And I'm still your wild frontier"


OUTRO:  (# ad lib & fade to end #)
  C        F
Oh, oh, oh