Along the Navajo trail (Listen to midi) (Listen to sample)

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1. Every day a lullabout evening,

C7

when the sunlight’s beginning to fail,

F C G C

I ride through the slumbering shadows, along the Navajo Trail.

C

2. When it's night and the crickets are calling,

C7

and coyotes are making a wail,

F C G C

I dream by a smouldering fire along the Navajo Trail.

F Fm C - C7

I love to lie and listen to the music,

F Fm C

when the wind is strumming a sage-brushed guitar,

Em B7 Em

when over yonder hill the moon is climbing,

Am D G - G7

it always finds me wishing on a star.

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3. What do you know, it's morning already,

C7

there's the dawning, so silver and pale,

F C G C

it's time to climb into my saddle and ride the Navajo Trail.

(original moves up half a note here)

repeat Verse 3 as instrumental + CHORUS + repeat verse 3

F C G C

+ It's time to climb into my saddle and ride the Navajo Trail.

(orig. = capo 1st; midi=capo3rd) (Roy Rogers)