Chords for Leo Kottke - Sonora's Death Row

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_ [D] _ Mezcal is free in [B] a panda [A] saloon for [G] the boys from the old [D] broken home
_ Saturday nights in the [Bm] town of Sonora [G] are the [A] best in all [D] Mexico
_ They [G] got guitars and trumpets and [D] sweet _ [F#] señoritas [G] who won't [A] want to let [D] you go
_ You'd never believe such [B] a happy [G] town had a street called [A] [D] Sonora's Death Row
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[D] Inside _ [B] Amanda's we were all dancing [G] with six of [A] [D] Amanda's gal
[C#] I [D] won some silver [F#] at seven card studs [G] so I was [A] out ruling my [D] pal _ _
[Gm] But the whiskey and [D] mezcal and pesos and cigars [G] drove [A] me [D] outside for some air
Somebody _ whispered [F#] your life or your money [G] I reached but my [A] gun [D] wasn't there
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_ I [A] woke up face down [G#] in Amanda's [C#] back alley [D] aware of the [E] fool [A] I had been _ _ _ _ _ _
Rushed to a saddle and [C#] grabbed someone's rifle [Bm] and entered [A] Amanda's again _ _ _
_ _ [D] Where I saw my partners [F#m]
twirling my [A] pistol [D] and throwing my [B] money [D] _ [A]
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Blinded by anger [C#m] I jacked the lever and [D] one of them [Em] fell to [A] the ground _ _ _
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_ _ _ Amanda's got silent [C#] like night in the desert [D] my friend stared [Bm] in [A] pure _ disbelief
[G#] _ [A] _ _ _ Amanda was kneeling [C#m] beside the dead cowboy [Bm]
plainly expressing [A] her grief
_ And _ _ [D] as I bobbed my head [A] a tremble shot through me [D] my pistol [E] was still at [A] my sight
I _ _ _ felt my pockets [E] and there was my [A] money [D] I fell to [E] my knees [A] and
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_ _ _ [A] nightmare of [E] mezcal [C#] was all that it [D] was no one had [E] robbed [A] me at all
_ _ _ _ I wish I was dreaming [C#] the sound of the gallows [D] they're testing [Em] just [A] outside the wall _ _
_ _ [D] And the mezcal still free in [A] Amanda's [D] saloon full of boys from [E] the old broken [A] home
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I'd pay a ransom [C#] to drink there today [D] and be free of [E] [A] Sonora's death row _ _
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