#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # What Am I Doing Here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ as performed by Michael Martin Murphy on Cowboy Songs I album notated by Greg Vaughn ([email protected]) E E/G# A E 1: Starin' at the south end of north bound cattle C#m B Slavin' in the saddle all day E E/G# A F# You've got to be some kind of natural born fool E/B B A E B To want to live your life this way 2: Well it can't be the cooking, it sure ain't the money The devil made the horse that I ride The days are too long and the nights are too short And the boss ain't never satisfied CHORUS E E/G# A E C#m F#m B So what am I doing here Lord, what am I doing here E E/G# A F# There's got to be something better up there E/B A E So what am I doing here BRIDGE C#m G#m Sometimes I wonder in the lightning and the thunder A B E G#7 If a cowboy's even got a prayer C#m G#m And why'd you have to make it so hard down here F#7 B When things are so much better up there 3: Now the Lord called his angels all around the throne Said boys I must be wastin' my time 'Cause I thought I gave the cowboy a pretty good life Now he's complaining 'till the day he dies repeat chorus twice
