Desperado (Listen to midi)    (Listen to sample)

                      

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1. Desperado,      why don't you come to your senses ?

                      D            Bm           E           A

    You been out ridin' fences for so long now.

                          D         - D7                     G                              - Gm

    Oh, you're a hard one,      I know that you got your reasons,

                D             F#    Bm                    E            A       D

    these things that are pleasin' you can hurt you somehow.

 

A                   Bm                       F#m

    Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy,

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    she'll beat you if she's able,

                             Bm                      G                         D     - A

    you know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.

                Bm                        F#m                   

    Now it seems to me some fine things

                       G                     D

    have been laid upon your table,

                 Bm                  E                    Em         

    but you only want the ones you can't get.

      A      D     - D7                       G                          - Gm

2. Desperado,        oh ,you ain't gettin' no younger,

              D                  Bm                      E             A

    your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home.

               D               D7                    G                            - Gm

    And freedom, oh well, that's just some people talkin',

              D      F#  Bm                            E         A D    - A

    your prison  is  walkin' through this world all alone.

 

                      Bm                        F#m

    Don't your feet get cold in the winter time ?

             G                                   D

    The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine.

          Bm                   G                            D     - A

    It's hard to tell the night time from the day.

               Bm                F#m

    You're losin' all your highs and lows,

               G                      D                 Em   - A

    ain't it funny how the feelin' goes away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3. Desperado,      why don't you come to your senses,

                D                      Bm       E             A

    come down from your fences, open the gate.

                     D      - D7                     G                      Gm

    It may be rainin',      but there's a rainbow above you,

                     D            F#    Bm                            G       Em

    you better let somebody love you, (you better let sb.love you),

                      D            F#   Bm         ~ ~      Em        A   

    you better let somebody love you  - - - before it's too - 

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    late.                               

 

(Capo 4)

 

    (Clint Black)