Don't Fence Me In  (C)
Lyrics and Music- Cole Porter
Key: C
Copyright 1934

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File Created 09/25/2018
File Edited 05/29/2019

Intro Chords:

CCG7G7C


Verse 1:

C       C7    F              C
Wildcat Kelly,looking mighty pale
G7  C                         Dm7
Was standing by the sheriff's side
    C        C7
And when thatsheriff said,
    F       Cdim  C     G7
"I'msending you tojail,"
C    Am7 F          G7       C
Wild-cat raised his head and cried

Chorus:

C  Dm7  G7 C             Cmaj7
Oh give me land, lots of land
      C6           Cmaj7
under starry skies above
C6    F     C  Dm7G7
Don't fence me in

       Dm7              G7
Let me ride through the wide open
Dm7            G7
country that I love
Dm7   G7       C6
Don't fence me in

       C        Cmaj7
Let me be by my self in the
C7      Caug
evening breeze,
F
Listen to the murmur of the
           Fm6
Cottonwood trees,

C               Gm
Send me off for-ever but I ask
A7  Fm
you please,
C     G9       C
Don't fence me in

C7           F
Just turn me loose,
Let me straddle my old saddle
                       C     G9
Underneath the western skies

C7        F
On my cay-ouse,
let me wander over yonder
                        C    GdimG7
til I see the mountains rise

  Dm7  G7 C
I want to ride to the
Fmaj7            C7       Caug
 Ridge where the west com-mences
F                               Fm6
gaze at the moon 'til I lose my senses

  C             Gm
I can't look at hobbles and I
      A7    Fm
Can't stand fences
C     G9       C  Dm7G7
Don't fence me in

Verse 2:

C       C7     F             C
Wildcat Kelly, back again in town
G7  C                           Dm7
Was sitting by his sweetheart's side
   C         C7
And when his sweetheart said,
      F        Cdim   C     G7
"Come on let's settle down,"
C     Am7 F          G7       C
 Wild-cat raised his head and cried


Chorus repeat:

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