Sonoras Death Row

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From: tbacus@onramp.net
Sonora's Death Row
by Robert Earl Keen Jr.
Capo at 3rd fret
[Verse 1]
C Am F C
Me and the boy's we cinched up our saddles and rode to sonora last night
C Am F C
Gun's hanging proud, daring out loud for any one looking to fight
F C F G
Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes when the boys from the old broken O
C Am F C
Rode up and reined on the street that they named Sonora's death row
[Verse 2]
C Am F C
Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O
C Am F C
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico
F C F G
They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas who won't want to let you go
C Am F C
You'd never believe such a gay happy time on the street called Sonora's death row
[Verse 3]
C Am F C
Inside Amanda's we was a dancin' with all of Amanda's gals
C Am F C
I won some silver at seven card stud so I was out doin' my pals
F C F C G
But the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars drove me outside for some air
C Am F C
Somebody whispered "Your life or your money", I reached but my gun wasn't there
[Verse 4]
C Am F C
I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley aware of the fool I had been
C Am F C
Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester and entered Amanda's again
F C F C G
Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols and throwing my money around
C Am F C
Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them fell to the ground
[Verse 5]
C Am F C
Amanda's got silent like night in the desert, my friends stared in pure disbelief
C Am F C
Amanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy plainly expressing her grief
F C F G
And as I bowed my head a tremble shot through me my six-gun was still at my side
C Am F C
I felt my pockets, there was my money, I fell to my knees and I cried
[Verse 6]
C Am F C
A nightmare of mescal is all that it was for no one had robbed me at all
C Am F C
I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows they're testing just outside the wall
F C F G
The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old Broken O
C Am F C
I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row
C Am F C
I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row

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From: tbacus@onramp.net
Sonora's Death Row
by Robert Earl Keen Jr.
Capo at 3rd fret
[Verse 1]
[Verse 2]
[Verse 3]
[Verse 4]
[Verse 5]
[Verse 6]

Sonoras Death Row Chords by Robert Earl Keen

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