Capo 3rd fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Chords used:
Intro
1.Verse:
Well the D Mezcal is free in Bm Amanda's saloon
For the G boys from the old Broken D O
Saturday nights in the Bm town of Sonora
Are the G best in all Mexi D co
They've got G guitars and trumpets and D/F# sweet senoritas
Who Em won't want to let you A go
You'd D never believe such a Bm gay happy town
Had a G street named Sonora's Death D Row G
2.Verse:
Well D inside Amanda's Bm we were all dancin'
With G all of Amanda's D gals
I won some silver at Bm seven card stud
So G I was outdoin' my D pals
But the G whiskey and mezcal and D/F# peso cigars
Em Drove me outside for some A air
Where D somebody whispered "Your Bm life or your money"
I G reached but my gun wasn't D there G
3.Verse:
I D woke up face down in A Bm manda's back alley
ware of the fool I had been
I rushed to my pony, I Bm grabbed my Winchester
And I entered Amanda's gain
Where G I saw my partners D/F# twirlin' my pistols
And throwin' my money round
D Blinded by rage, Bm I pulled the trigger
And G one of them fell to the D ground G
4.Verse:
Well A D manda's grew silent like Bm night in the desert
My G friends stared in pure dis D belief
Amanda was kneeling be Bm side the dead cowboy
Plainly expressing her grief
And as G I bowed my head, a D/F# tremble shot through me
My Em six-gun was there at my A side
I D felt in my pockets and Bm there was my money
I G fell to my knees and I D cried G
5.Verse:
For a D nightmare of mezcal was Bm all that it was
G No one had robbed me at D all
I wish I was dreamin' the Bm sound of the gallows
They're G testin' just outside the D walls
And the G mezcal's still free in A D/F# manda's saloon
For the Em boys from the old Broken A O
And D I'd give a ransom to Bm drink there today
And be G free of Sonora's Death D Row G
Yeah I'd give a ransom to Bm drink there today
And be G free of Sonora's Death D Row G
Tom calles this "the best cowboy twist-of-fate song ever written", Robert Earl Keen and
Richard Shindell has also done it.