High, Wide And Handsome

Words and Music by by Chuck Pyle
Sung by John Denver
on The Flower That Shattered The Stone (1990)

Unusual Chords
F#m7  242222

F#m7    B    E    /

E         A         B
    High, wide and handsome
  F#m7             B           E
    Down from the Great White North
           A           B
More than enough and then some
F#m7             B           E
    Swept her up on his horse

E        A          B
    Tumbleweeds were meant to
 F#m7         B        E
    Get stuck up on a fence
      A        B
Heaven must have sent you
 F#m7             B                 E
    You've got no wire to roll against

B            A      E
    Keep her steady, cowgirl
B             A             E
    Don't let go of the reins
B           A     E
    You are ready now, girl
A             F#m7          B
    Never mind the growin' pains

E              A       B
    Worlds out there are waiting
F#m7        B          E
    Big and wild as the sky
             A     B
    No more he-si-tating
F#m7             B              E
    It's now or never, do or die

B            A     E
    Keep her steady, cowgirl
B             A              E
    Don't let go of the reins
B            A    E
    You are ready now, girl
A             F#m7          B
    Never mind the growin' pains

   A
As hard as you imagined it being without me
E
   We'll both be wishing it were that easy
    F#
Don't give me a pull, give me some room
          F#m7                                    B
When this round is through, I'll be comin' back home

E       A    B
   Wide open spaces
F#m7            B           E
   Between these two prairie hearts
           A            B
Wonderin' where their place is
F#m7     B             E
   In a world so far apart

B             A    E
   Keep her steady, cowgirl
B          A            E
   Don't let go of the reins
B           A    E
   You are ready now, girl
A            F#m7          B
   Never mind the growin' pains

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