Whoop Up Trail
Charlie Ewing
Key: Am
Tempo: 110
Time: 4/4
Capo: 2
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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We're slogging through the mud, through the country of the Blood
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Headed north along the whoop up trail,
C Em C
We're slogging through the mud, through the country of the Blood
Em
Headed north along the whoop up trail,
Am C Am
If these bulls will pull their load, we'll be three weeks on the road
C Am C Am
Heading north along the whoop up trail.
[Verse 2]
C Am
We're leaving Benton's fort, Missouri river port
C Am
Plodding north along the whoop up trail,
C
We're leaving Benton's fort, Missouri river port
Em
Plodding north along the whoop up trail
Am
With our black snakes popping loud all the way to Fort McLeod
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Parading north along the whoop up trail.
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Through snow and dust and rain, thirty wagons in our train
C Am
Rolling north along the whoop up trail,
C Am Em
Through snow and dust and rain, thirty wagons in our train
C Em
Rolling north along the whoop up trail,
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Through weather foul or fine, across the medicine line,
C Am Em Am
Rolling north along the whoop up trail.
[Verse 4]
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Whacking bulls for T C Power hauling bacon beans and flour
for the red-coats at the end of the whoop up trail,
C
Whacking bulls for T C Power hauling bacon beans and flour
Em
for the Indians at the end of the whoop up trail
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Tobacco, salt and tea for the Blackfoot and the Cree
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And the Mounties at the end of the whoop up trail,
[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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And when our journey ends, we'll rumble home again
C Am
Past the coal banks along the whoop up trail
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And when our journey ends, we'll rumble home again
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at the coal banks along the whoop up trail
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With wagon loads of coal for the steamboats on the shoal
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Fort Benton at the end of the whoop up trail.