Intro:  
  
F                         Bb  
A cup of coffee with the first sun light  
C                   F  
At a last chance Texaco  
F                                  Gm  
I'm thrumbing through a worn out roadmap  
 Gm                           C  
Trying to decide which way to go  
  C                          Bb                              
These empty miles that are memory  
  C                       F  
They just seem to linger on  
  F                  Gm  
She left me on this lost highway  
 Gm                            F  
Wondering why and where she'd gone  
 
 F                             Bb  
That's how a cowgirl breaks a young man heart  
  C                               F  
That's how my whole world slowly came apart  
 F                      Gm  
With a cold and empty stare  
 Gm                   C  
As if I wasn't even there  
 C   
She didn't even stop to cry  
Gm                          F  
That's how a cowgirl says goodbye  
                                  Gm                         F  
                 ending: I guess that's how a cowgirl says goodbye  
  
lead  
F                            Bb  
Called up her mom down in abolene  
C                          F  
just to find out how she fared  
 F                              Gm  
She said she stopped a while in San Antone  
 Gm                           C  
spent some time with an old friend  
 C                        Bb                          
with all this distance in between us   
C                            F  
I'm sure I never cross her mind  
 F                         Gm  
And it may take all these roads ahead   
Gm                    F  
just to leave it all behind  
  
chorus, chorus