Chords for Marty Robbins Tall Handsome Stranger & Fastest Gun Around

[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ But an all handsome stranger [Fm] rode into town With fire in [Ab] his eyes, [G] burning the reddest
[Cm] sun down His boots were all dusty, [Ab] his coat open wide
Six ways of dying [G] hung [Cm] low on his thigh _ _ _ _ He went in the town hall [Fm] asking for me
They told [Ab] him that I was still town [Cm] deputy I sent him to prison to [D] pay [Ab] for his crime
[F] He killed a [Eb] guard on the [G] Santa [Cm] Fe line _ He _ spread word [Ab] around town that my time had
come My notch was [G] already carved on his [Cm] gun
He's laughing and bragging [Fm] and having [Cm] his fun It's all a [G] show for he knows I won't [Cm] run
_ _ _ _ [Ab] That night in silence the [Bb] town was asleep [Ab] I sat by my window and [Eb] looked down the street
[Ab] I wished in my heart that he'd just [Cm] ride away [G] I hated to face him [Cm] at sunup that day
_ I met him at sunup, [Fm] the crowd gathered round Waiting and [G] watching for one to go [Cm] down
He grabbed for his six gun, [Fm] trying his best He cursed [C] as my bullet [G] went deep in [Cm] his chest
_ _ _ He stood there a moment and looked all around [Bbm] [Eb] Slowly and lifeless [G] he fell [Cm] to the ground
This stranger's my brother, [Fm] [Ab] born an outlaw [Fm] He must have forgotten I [G] taught him to [Cm] draw
_ _ _ _ [Ab] The whole [Db] town was waiting and [Fm] I was alone [Ab] I've loved that ice bill [Eb] just like my own
[Bb] When she hears this story how [Cm] mother will cry
[Fm] Brother gets [Cm] brother and one had to die
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_ _ [Gm] the days of [Bbm] William Bonny, better known as Bill the Kid
A young cowboy named Joey Steel [Eb] was about to make his bid
[Gm] Well he heard one day [Fm] that Bill the Kid [Gm] had just rode [Db] into town
And if he could take him he would be [Gm] the fastest gun around
He was [Bb] just a kid [Db] of seventeen [Eb] but he had a [Db] lightning hand
[Gm] And he said it's time [Ab] I show the [Eb] world that I've become a man
[Gm] Everyone thinks [Ab] Billy [Eb] is the fastest [Ab] gun around But they [Gm] will know I'm [Ab] faster [Eb] when they see
me shooting down
[Ab] They finally [Gb] came together [Ab] down on Main Street [Db] just at five
The people [Gb] were all gathered [Ab] wondering who'd be left alive
Billy knew that Joey wanted notches [Ebm] on his gun
[Ab] And he wished that [Gb] he could give him [Ab] those he'd carved upon his _ own
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_ [Eb] Joey's [Db] hand went [Ab] to his side he was sure that [Db] he had won
But before he even fired he saw the [Eb] smoke of Billy's gun
And he felt the bullet [Fm] hit him [Gm] hard and before his eyes he [Db] saw
[Gm] His wasted life pass [Ab] quickly [Eb] ending with this fatal draw
Billy [Db] breathed more easily [Gm] and he put away [Db] his gun
[Eb] And he tried to ease his [Db] conscience [Eb] for the wrong that he had done
Then he saddled [Db] up his horse and [Eb] headed westward [Db] out of town
[Gm] And he wondered just how [Ab] long he'd [Eb] be the fastest gun around
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