This is my adaptation, somewhat simplified from the sheet music.


DON'T FENCE ME IN
Words by and Bob Fletcher and Cole Porter, music by Cole Porter, ©1934.
As sung by Roy Rogers in "Hollywood Canteen" (1944)

  Intro
  D6   G   D6     G              D   A7
  Wild Cat Kelly, looking mighty pale
      D                         Am7
  Was standinG by the sheriff's side
      D6   G    D6      D7        G              D  
  And when that sheriff said "I'm sending you to jail"
  D    Bm7 G          A7       D6
  Wild Cat raised his head and cried
  
  Refrain:
  D          D             Dmaj7      D6           Dmaj7
  Oh give me land, lots of land under starry skies above
  D6    Dmaj7    Em7  A7
  Don't fence me in
         Em7              A7        Em7            A7
  Let me ride through the wide open country that I love
  Em7    A7      D
  Don't fence me in
         D       Dmaj7       D7
  Let me be by myself in the evening breeze
  G                                      Gm
  Listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees
  D              Am         Am  B7  Gm
  Send me off forever but I ask you please
  D     A7       D
  Don't fence me in
  
  Verse
       D7      G
  Just turn me loose let me straddle my old saddle
       G                 D       D7
  Underneath the western skies
           G
  On my Cayuse let me wander over yonder
         G                 D     A7
  Till I see the mountains rise
            D           Dmaj7           D7
  I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
  G                               Gm
  Gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
  D             Am            Am    B7    Gm
  Can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences
  D     A7       D
  Don't fence me in