Paul Gross

Ride Forever Chords by Paul Gross


^D Well I was born up north of Great Slave, 1898,

and I ^G rode near all my life on a ranch near Devil's Gate.

And I've ^D seen this world about me bend and flip and change.
G
Hey it feels like ^Am rain -- that's a thundercloud.

Well ^D I've been called a coward, but I've seen two World Wars.

And ^G I lost my son Virgil, a Korean reward.

And my ^D Lucy died last summer. You ask me if I cry,

Hell, I've shed tears: ^Am all over ^G this ground,

they're ^G falling from ^A these blue ^D Alberta skies.


Chorus:


^D We're gonna ride ^A forever,

^Am You can't keep horsemen ^G in a cage.

Should the angels ^D call, well it's ^Am only then

We'll pull in the ^G reins.



Now they tell me I'm an old man, they tell me I am blind.

They took my driver's license, this house ain't far behind.

I said "Jump back all you big suits, you got something wrong

'cause I ain't gone. No I ain't gone."

I am still breathing, and I still have my pride.

And I have my memories, your life it never dies.

Like the wind that blows in thunder, like the stallion on the fly

I got it all, and I'm standing tall

Underneath these blue Alberta skies.

^chorus

So I say to all you old men: Don't let yourselves get broke.

If you think the world's gone crazy and it's scratching at your throat

it's time to dust off that old saddle and get it on a horse.

Kick up your spurs: we're gonna run like stink

We're gonna tear across these blue Alberta skies.

^chorus