Horses, Guns, and the Chase
     ©2008, Roger Judd, CaneyFork Publishing, BMI

     I started work on this idea back in 08, but was never satisfied
     with it. "Same Old Country Boy" the story of my Sister-in-Law
     going off the deep end was the original I had planned for CF-13
     in 2011...but when it appeared that "Same Old Country Boy" would
     not make the cut, I stopped work on it and renewed work on "Horses,
     Guns, and the Chase." There was a guitar lick that I had been
     doodling around with for 5 or 6 years, and I fit a chord pattern
     around it containing bothe the relative minor and the secondary
     minor chord (Em and Am with G as the root) which I really liked
     and gave it a medium-tempo 4/4 swing. Of course, I always struggle
     with the lyrics when I have to fit them to the music after-the-fact.
     As I gathered ideas for the verses, the Chorus transformed into a 
     statement about Civil War Reenacting. I was using the names and 
     ranks of my old comrads from the 7th Tenn. Cavalry with quite a bit
     of literary license to make a (sort of) recruitment jingle for the 
     7th Tenn. As my usual method goes, I take assorted facts and persons,
     and mix them around however I need to. This song speaks to a subject
     that is very near and dear to my heart, and I sincerely hope that 
     the verses convey the sense of brotherhood that I hold for the men of
     the 7th. Memories of the times that Trev and I spent in the field 
     with these men will forever hold a special place in my heart.
     RAJ, Sep. 2011
     


     [Colonel Fullwood's horses were the fastest in the land  ]
     [He always hunted mounted with an enfield in his hand    ]
     [To keep up with a pack of hounds and the fox on the run ]
     [And to do the coup’ de gras with his gun                ]

     [Sergent Dunn was a soldier without equal                      ]
     [he showed us how to fight and taught us to always travel light]
     [so when those Yankess broke and run, we'd hit em' right away  ]
     [with horses, guns and the chase                               ]

     [Private Johnny Mansell was a Southerne patriot       ]
     [I'm proud to say he was a friend of mine             ]
     [son of a dirt poor farmer from the hills of Tennessee]
     [now his memory haunts the battlefields in Dixie      ]

     [Bugg Hunt and his thieving gang, they robbed the Nashville stage]
     [and Sheriff Haney vowed that they would never get away          ]
     [he deputized the veterans of the Seventh Tennessee              ]
     [and soon old Bugg was swinging from a tree                      ]

     [    Em        C           G                                 ]
     [The story of America is a struggle to be free               ]
     [    Em                  C               D                   ]
     [and there's no shame in looking back at how it used to be   ]
     [   Am                    D            G       G/F#     Em   ]
     [at campfires, boots, and saddles, in anothere time and place]
     [     C       D             G         C                      ]
     [with Horses, Guns, and the Chase                            ]
     [             D             G                                ]
     [with Horses, Guns, and the Chase                            ]