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I'm Sleepin’ In My Leggin’s Tonight
Recorded by Red Steagall
Written by Fletcher Jowers and Red Steagall

C                                    F
There's a big storm rollin' in I can feel it in my bones
     G7                                                       C
I'll bet my pay they'll run tonight but I'm praying that they don't
                               F
See the lightnin' flashin' out on the distant plains
    G7                                                        C
The wind sweeps cross my bedroll and the air smells just like rain

                               F
So I'm sleepin' in my leggin's tonight
   G7                        C
My night horse is tied by my side
                                           F
When lightnin' cracks and thunder rolls my mouth gets hot and dry
       G7                      C
So I'm sleepin' in my leggin's tonight

                                    F
Reminds me of a stormy night on the Brazos late last spring
       G7                                         C
They'd settled on the bed ground when it began to rain
                                  F
Mighty bolt of lightn' struck the ground and they were gone
      G7                                              C
Three thousand head of longhorns running madly in the storm

Repeat #2

                           F
Little Jimmy Wilson tryin' hard to turn the lead
        G7                                              C
Was the first to reach the cattle and got caught in the stampede
                                            F
When the lightnin' flashed I saw him as his saddle horse went down
     G7                                                           C
He's sleeps beside the Chisholm trail beneath a sagebrush covered mound

Repeat #2

F                G7         F           C
Sight of rushin' cattle can drive a man insane
          F              G7           F                 G7
Longhorns glowing in the darkness the wind the hail the rain
                            C
I'm sleepin' in my leggin's tonight

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