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Big Chief Buffalo Nickel
Recorded by Ricky Nelson
Written by Jimmie Rodgers

C                                                         G7
A way out on the wind swept desert where nature favors no man
                                                   C
A buffalo found his brother lyin' on the sun baked sand
                                                            G7
He said my brother what ails you the sickness made you this way
                        
His brother never said cause his brother was dead
                              C
He's been dead since way last May

                                                     G7
The big chief buffalo nickel was a mighty man in his day
                                           C
He never used a sickle to clear the bushes away
                                                        G7
He's roamed around from tent to tent heed everything in sight
                                                          C
He loved a squaw everyone he saw he loved a new one every night

                                                        G7
A way out on the wind swept desert I heard a big Indian moan
                                                                C
I left my kin cause I knew what it meant I swore I'd never more roam
                                                              G7
It was dawn when I reached St Pete and my legs were certainly sore

I must've lost fifty pounds on that hot desert ground 
                       C
And I'd lose that many more

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