Wild West Chords by Joe Jackson

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Out to the west is a trail that leads somewhere,
And the call of the wild will take some people there. _
Through Monument Valley to _ California's sun,
From New Amsterdam to the way the west was won. _ _
_ _ _ [F] Wow, years will go by [C] when you won't get [G] nowhere,
_ _ [F] You're cold and you're [C] tired and you're free and you [G] don't care. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You keep pushing on when your friends keep turning back,
And you keep building towns and laying railroad tracks.
And things get crazy and you have to use that gun,
And you wonder if this is the way the west is won.
_ [F] But keep [C] thinking that way and you won't get nowhere,
[G] _ _ _ [F] Cause you gotta ride [C] just to get where you're [G] going to.
_ [F] Gotta keep running, [C] gotta be the [Bb] best,
Gotta walk tall and move out of [G] your way.
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You're deep on the move or you're trying to settle down. _
Strangers from further and further away in town, _
Give them some tools and they know what must be done. _
You know who's the boss and you know the west was won.
Best [F] day ever, [C] you can't get nowhere.
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I'm bringing my [C] backbone some [G] opportunity, _ _
Making [C] my fortune and I'm taking it all,
I'm telling you to better [G] why you west.
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There's no [C] beauty as the flowers bloom on desert [Am] sands,
There's no hope [C] as the sun [D] rises over the Rio Grande.
[Bm] But it's so crowded now and [D] nothing's simple anymore. _
[C] And they're still knocking at your door, _ _
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You hear guns in the night and you hope they're not for us. _
Cause if dog eats a dog then he eats his master _ too.
In the land of the free and the not so often brave, _
There's both love or money now choose what you will save.
_ _ _ _ [C] Fuck you thinking that way cause you won't [G] get nowhere,
_ _ _ You gotta [C] ride just to get where [G] you're going to.
_ Gotta keep running, gotta be the [Bb] best,
Gotta [D] walk tall and move out [G] of your way. _ _
[C] Fuck you thinking that way cause you won't get [G] nowhere, _ _ _
You gotta [C] ride just to get where you're going [G] to. _ _
[C] Gotta keep running, gotta be the [Bb] best,
Gotta walk [Dm] tall and move out [Bb] of your way.
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