South Dakota Town                                    (slide Em position to 5th fret
He was on the way to gettin’  someone Em – Gm - Am
On a grey horse carrying a six gun
To the South Dakota town way out in nowhere
 Get the whiskey to do the job that must be done

Now the story says a bullet took his true love
In a drunken brawl back East not long ago
Now the miles from St Louis to Dakota
Made the pain of his duty seem to grow
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Now where is that crazy drunken coward  C – D - Em
Whose bullet was so carelessly placed
When I find out where he’s run to
His awful deed must be faced    C – B7 – Em

On a hot summer night a shot rang heavy
And set up waves in the dry and still air
Now maybe the shootin’ was not so crazy
There’s one less soul to breathe Dakota air

In that South Dakota town way out in nowhere
He found an answer, a bullet and a grave.