Top Hand Chords & Tabs

by Charley Crockett

[Version Description]
Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTy7o_UqC6k.
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 70
Denominator: 16
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 101]
TOP HAND
As recorded by Charley Crockett
(From the 2026 Album CLOVIS)

[Verse 1]
     Am            D                               F    G
Last winter, I was workin' on the plains above the grave
          Am  
Llano Estacado
          D                                F    G
Elina, my one true love she gave to me her horse
             Am     
His name was Quantro

[Refrain]
          Em             F      
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider
          Dm     G
Hell of a fighter
          C   
I'm a top hand

[Verse 2]
          Am  
I fell in love
       D                     FG
With a very rich and powerful
               Am      
Cattle baron's daughter
                   D                            F G
She pleaded in the plaza for them to forgive me of
                    Am    
The crimes I had committed

[Refrain]
          Em             F      
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider
            Dm     G
Pretty good fighter
          C   
I'm a top hand

[Instrumental Break]
Am  D  Am  D  F G Am

[Verse 3]
                  D                               F      G
I was born on the cotton fields alone, and mighty flowin'
    Am   
Rio Bravo
Am       
I went o'
         D                           F   G
O'er the unpained and unbridled wild land
                    Am    
Of the western territories

[Refrain]
          Em             F      
I'm a top hand, and he's a rider
               Dm     G
Hell of a good fighter
          C   
I'm a top hand

[Outro]
   Am          D                                  F      G
Oh Llano, only men who make the law can write the stories
           Am      DAm D F G Am
Story of a top hand