{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1717922,"song":"New Life In Old Mexico","artist":"Robert Earl Keen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1717922-new-life-in-old-mexico-chords-by-robert-earl-keen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1717922?type=chord","rating":4.79695,"votes":12,"content":"Robert Earl Keen - My New Life is Waiting\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                               [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI crossed the Mississippi,              turned south at San Anton        [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                          [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nA bowie knife, a woolen coat,           a grip bag on my arm   [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                        [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIt's all somebody needs to              make it through the land [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                         [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWalk the night, travel light,           cross the Rio Grande[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nSomeone strums a mandolin,      soft gulf breezes blow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]          \r\nMy new life is waiting in old Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                       [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI was once a married man                livin' peacefully [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHard to say exactly when                the devil blinded me [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                        [ch]F#m[/ch]                             \r\nBut there was some confusion    when my sweet  wife left this world [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                  [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDarker times, drunken crimes,   a dead young working girl [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]                  [ch]E[/ch]\r\nLeft a jailer there in Caroline, watching me from down below[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy new life is waiting in old Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]F#m[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLivin' in the shadows           Runnin' from my fame[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nBlowin' where the wind blows    Where no one knows my name[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                      [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nIn the El Vaquero Bar           in the town of Eagle Pass [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                            [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]             \r\nMoments from my freedom                 warm whiskey in my glass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nSome boracho took me            for the man who stole his wife[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                       [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe went for his forty-four as           I reached for my knife [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe never fired a second shot    he was just too slow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy new life is waiting in old Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI hear of hidden harbors south of Mazatlan [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]E[/ch]                                                       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere cool spring mountain waters               meet the warm Pacific sun[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]                                                   [ch]F#m[/ch]\r\nI pray the miles I've traveled                  and all the sins I bear [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBurn away like mornin' fog                      and vanish in the air [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F#m[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]A[/ch]            [ch]E[/ch]\r\nMiles beyond the border now,            but many miles to go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy new life is waiting in old Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]           [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nMy new life is waiting in old Mexico[/tab]","plain_text":"Robert Earl Keen - My New Life is Waiting","chords":["A","F#m","E","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}