Chords for Ava Maria Morales - Marty Robbins (Album Version)

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_ _ _ _ A long time ago in the small border town [Eb] of Nogales, _ _ _ _ [F] there lived a beautiful Mexican girl named Eva Maria [Bb] Morales.
Her dark hair would glisten and shine when touched [Eb] by the sun.
_ _ _ [F] And she loved a cowboy that told her he worked on a ranch just [Bb] outside of Tucson. _ _
_ _ The diamonds he gave to her caused many [Eb] people to say, _ _
_ _ [F] How could he give her such diamonds as these on thirty a month [Bb] cowboy pay?
She paid no attention to what they said or [Eb] what they did. _
_ [F] Cause she never doubted he worked on a ranch out of Tucson just [Bb] like he said.
And _ _ in Nogales one morning came [Eb] riding a stranger.
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He wore a badge on the front of his vest.
The new one in town [Bb] was a ranger.
And he showed some pictures of outlaws and bandits [Eb] he chased.
_ _ [F] And one of the pictures caused Eva Maria to turn with fear [Bb] on her face. _
Eva [Eb] Maria, _ _ it's true [Bb] what they _ say.
You're a [F] cowboy's an outlaw with a [Bb] price on his head. _
_ The ranger left town on the trail of the [Eb] outlaws he hunted. _ _
_ _ [F] Eva Maria prayed he'd never catch the cowboy she loved [Bb] and she wanted.
Cause deep in her heart she believed that the [Eb] ranger was wrong. _ _
_ [F] The outlaw just looked like the cowboy that worked on the ranch just [Bb] outside of Tucson. _ _ _ _
True love would never let Eva Maria [Eb]
believe it.
_ _ [F] And there in her window each evening she'd light a candle and hope [Bb] he would see it.
The years turned her dark hair to silver but love [Eb] still lived on.
_ _ _ [F] She prayed every night for the cowboy that worked on the ranch just [Bb] outside of Tucson. _ _
_ One night the town of Nogales was [Eb] saddened to see. _ _
_ [F] The window where Eva Maria would watch was dark where light [Bb] used to be.
Some love stories live for a while and then they [Eb] are gone. _
_ [F] For over a century the story of Eva Maria has lived on [Bb] in poems.
_ _ [Eb] Eva Maria _ if your [Bb] spirit lives on.
_ I [F] hope you have found him _ at the ranch [Bb] just outside [F] of [Bb] Tucson. _ _
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