Jerry Jeff Walker
[Verse 1]
C F
Even as she sleeps, she feels his restless turning
C G
As he struggles with an old dream all night long
C F
And when she awakes, she turns to reassure him
C G
She whispers to a shadows and finds him gone
[Verse 2]
C F
Way out in the barn a single lamp is burning
C G
She faintly hears a radio play a sad old cowboy song
C F
She watches as he works, with his riggins and his saddle
C G C
A sudden chill runs through her in the still of the not quite dawn
[Chorus]
F C
She's losing him, to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul, when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind
[Verse 3]
C
One sure way to lose him
F
Is to try and make him stay
C G
He can't explain he don't even know himself
C
But the force that drew her to him
F
Has just gotta break away
C
And the sound of the road and the rolling wheel
G C
Is the only thing that helps
[Chorus]
F C
She's losing him, to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul, when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind
[Bridge]
Am G F C
Now it all makes sense, those signs she's been seeing all along
Am G F C
She feels like such a fool, a woman ought to know
F C F
Just the other day, she saw him sittin' out on the south fence
C G C
Throwing stones at prairie dogs, and staring down the road
[Chorus]
F C
She's losing him, to the rodeo wind
G C
That blows through his soul, when the summer begins
F C
When the winter snow falls, he'll come back again
F C G C
But his heart always drifts, on the rodeo wind