One Gate From Home by Dan Roberts
Key: AA | Capo: 3fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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There's a lonley ranch wife in the valley
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out dryin her clothes on the line
but her mind's far away with the cowboy she loves
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at his high camp way up in the pines
all summer long she's been workin
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tenden the place on her own
she's seen a few strays, so she knows any day
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he'll be one gate from home
 
he's bringing yearlins back down to the flat lands
to stay ahead of that first winter snow
and the chill in his bones as the low cattle moans
spurs a longin down deep in his soul
every summer without her seems longer
she's the only love he's ever known
he'll ease down the north face to save him some time
and he'll be one gate from home
 
Chorus
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he'll take down his top rail
turn out his horses
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and walk through the pastures he's sown
                    
and never more roam
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he's just one gate from home
 
a bolt of lightening a loose shoe and a deadfall
this time he's busted up bad
but his cowpony makes it, he watches him lope away
the second best friend he's ever had
each snow flake that hits his face melts a memory
of her love and how she let him roam
with his eyes towards the heavens
and the last trial he'll ride
he's just one gate from home
 
Chorus
 
and they'll take down his top rail,
turn out his horses
as he walks through the pastures he's sown
never more roam
he's just one gate from home.