Desert High Chords by Billy F Gibbons

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_ [F] _ _ The desert [Dm] dust fills your eyes.
_ [E] The rattlesnake shake _ takes you by [Fm] surprise.
The coyotes sing in the calm of night.
[B] _ The cactus water [Bb] goes down like fire.
[Dm] _ _ The city of angels [A] ain't too far from here.
[Dm] _ And when I need some sin, it's always near.
The Caliente warms my bones.
_ And [N] the Valley of Death is a skeleton's [Dm] home.
_ The desert toad takes me far right.
_ _ The Lucy [Bb] King's always by my side.
_ [Am] _ [Dm] [A] The hawk and the eagle just want to fly.
[Am] _ [D] But the horizon's hot [G] _ and the [Dm] air is dry. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Dm] _ _ The venom stings from the scorpion.
_ [A] _ And the owl watches where I've been.
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_ _ [Dm] My lips are cracked from the howling wind.
[Am] I need [Dm] to quench my thirst [G] and heal my [F] skin.
[D] _ The mountains like painting [B] the [A] Joshua tree.
[Dm] _ [A] Graham died in [Em] room 8 and left it all [Dm] to Keith.
_ Just a couple of [B] miles from the Salt Lake Sea.
_ [A] But a little closer to heaven [Em] for someone like me.
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