Theres a few little differences in the one verse from the rest and even the
chorus changes a little bit, but as an ol'boy told me one time, thats just
the way the script was wrote.
Theres One Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse By Red Steagall
3/4
G
Theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse
G7 C
Theres a saddle that nobody rides
G
One empty place at the table
D
The remuda is five horses shy
G
We turned his string out to pasture
G7 C
He'll never ride em no more
G
We buried him out on the hillside last sunday
D G
Another good cowboys gone home
G
He came on a train to west Texas
G7 C
>From a farm back in east Tennessee
G
All he wanted outa life was to cowboy
D
He came west to full fill his dream
G
He got his first job on the sixes
G7 C
That was forty some odd years ago
G
He was the best we ever saw with the bad ones
D
One hell of a hand with a rope
G
I saw him just one time in service
G7 C
It was the day that the boss lady died
G
You could tell by the way, he handled people and horses
D
He'd made his own deal with his god
G
Now theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse
G7 C
Theres a saddle that nobody rides
G
One empty place at the table
D G
The remuda is five horses shy
G
He hated to fence and dig post holes
G7 C
He would if he's ask to of course
G
Then he'd swear how theres nothin in life thats worth doin
D
If it can't be done from a horse
G
He taught me how to top out the bad ones
G7 C
How to tell a good horse from his eye
G
How to watch on the roundup when a cows on the prod
D
Shes hidin her baby nearby
G
Well we ain't changed a thing in the bunkhouse
G7 C
We ain't ready to admit that hes gone
G
His hot roll still lays across the foot of his bed
D
His leggins still hang on the wall
G
But theres one empty cot in the bunkhouse
G7 C
Theres a saddle that nobody rides
G
One empty place at the table
D G
The remuda is five horses shy