{"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":73161,"song":"Sonoras Death Row","artist":"Robert Earl Keen","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/73161-sonoras-death-row-chords-by-robert-earl-keen/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/73161?type=chord","rating":4.88379,"votes":85,"content":"From: tbacus@onramp.net\r\n\r\nSonora's Death Row\r\nby Robert Earl Keen Jr.\r\n\r\nCapo at 3rd fret\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]                         [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMe and the boy's we cinched up our saddles and rode to sonora last night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nGun's hanging proud, daring out loud for any one looking to fight[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nCard cheats and rustlers would run for their holes when the boys from the old broken O[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRode up and reined on the street that they named Sonora's death row[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSaturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThey've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas who won't want to let you go[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nYou'd never believe such a gay happy time on the street called Sonora's death row[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]      \r\nInside Amanda's we was a dancin' with all of Amanda's gals[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI won some silver at seven card stud so I was out doin' my pals[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars drove me outside for some air[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSomebody whispered \"Your life or your money\", I reached but my gun wasn't there[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                      [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI woke up face down in Amanda's back alley aware of the fool I had been[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester and entered Amanda's again[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhere I saw my partners twirling my pistols and throwing my money around[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBlinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them fell to the ground[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAmanda's got silent like night in the desert, my friends stared in pure disbelief[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAmanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy plainly expressing her grief[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]                      \r\nAnd as I bowed my head a tremble shot through me my six-gun was still at my side[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI felt my pockets, there was my money, I fell to my knees and I cried[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                  [ch]F[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nA nightmare of mescal is all that it was for no one had robbed me at all[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows they're testing just outside the wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThe mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old Broken O[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row[/tab]","plain_text":"From: tbacus@onramp.net\n\nSonora's Death Row\nby Robert Earl Keen Jr.\n\nCapo at 3rd fret\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 6]","chords":["C","Am","F","G","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}