"Evacuation of the West" By Bruce Springsteen G Bm C Em D Am C D G Bm It was on the day the cowboys were abandoned from the ranch C Em Middle touch world as a master D Am They rode their ponies down in the cities of gold C D To leave them for ever after G Bm Now the sun was swollen red and old C Em The earth it was windy, dark and cold D Am Were the highway ends the desert takes its toll C D So dusty, red and angry Em It was a time when men died out on the praire Bm From not having a decent friend C C/B C/A C/G At nights the ghosts to the more of riders G D G Bm Was a howl in the candid winds C C/B C/A C/G G Bm You can hear them crying C C/B C/A C/G G Bm Good god, i think they're dying C C/B C/A C/G G Bm When them rangers down in Dallas C Em Had all, but given it up and left D Am And those that hang on hoping C D Was trying their best to, to forget G Bm The way those outlaws and desperadoes C Em Right from the cheapest to the best D Am Rode in on ponies made of skin and bones C D Keep up their rusty guns and went back home Em And the governor was sent down from population control Bm And marshall law was past C C/B C/A C/G Riverboat gamblers put their money on faith G D For the time for hope they passed [G Bm C C/B C/A C/G] x2 G Bm In the cold blue light of the desert night C Em There was a thousand starry ships D Am And men came down from still i don't now where C D With death on their fingertips G Bm Now there's no more kings in texas C Em I swear they rounded up each and everyone D Am And old Atlanta canastoga C D Reached from the Rocky Mountains into the old dead sun Em Now Anna Maria walks the blames alone Bm The last of a struggling people C C/B C/A C/G She thinks of all those outlaws who wanted to reach for the skies G D G Bm And got stuck up on a steamboat C C/B C/A C/G G Bm Oh, you can hear them crying C C/B C/A C/G G Bm Good god, i think they're dying C C/B C/A C/G G Bm In the wind you can hear them sighing C C/B C/A C/G Em Bm C C/B C/A C/G G