Chords for Miguel ( gordon lightfoot cover )

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [F] Never had much to say, he [Am] traveled alone with no [C]
friends
_ [F] _ Like a shadowy ghost at dawn [Am] he came _ and he [A] was
_ [F] Through the [G] woodlands swiftly [Em] gliding, to his young maid [Am] he came riding
[D] _ Where she'd run to meet [Dm] him [G] by the [Am] garden [D] wall _
Oh, my sweet big gal, _ _ _ _ oh I [C] will never tell you _
No one [Am] will ever know _ _ _ what [C] I know to well _ _ _
And he smiled, _ [F] lay his head [C] on her breast
And he [F] said, I have [C] no fear, they're [F] waiting for me
To cross the border [G] or swim the river, cause [Em] I've done that [D] before
_ [Em] To see my true [Am] love's smiling face [D] a hundred [G] times or _ _ [F] more
Oh, _ _ [G] my sweet big gal, she [F] cried, _ _ _ _ [G] I will love you _ till _ [C] I die _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] He was born to the south in [Am] Mexico, _ so they [C] say
The [F] _ _ child of a man who'd [Am] soon _ gone [C] _
away
_ [F] But his mother loved him [Em] dearly and she [Am] would take him dearly
[D] To the great cathedral [Dm] _
[G] in St.
[A] _ [G] Augustine _
Oh, my young [Am] big gal, _ _ _ listen [C] to the man _ _ _
Of my [Am] poverty, _ _ _ _ you [C] must never tell _ _ _
And he cried _ [F] himself to sleep in [C] the night
And [F] he vowed to make things [C] right
So [F] he took the gun down from the [G] wall and he made a call
[Em] And you should _ [Dm] understand, _ _ [Em] a lawman [Am] came to capture him
And [D] the gun jumped in [G] his _ _ [F] hand
_ _ [G] Oh, my gal, the mother [F] cried, _ _ _ _ [G] you must run son _ or you'll [C] die _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ So the story's told, all this [Am] true love across the [C] _
line
[F] _ _ Strong as the yoke _ [Am] and as sweet _ as the [G]
vine
_ [F] _ _ When [G] the child she bore him [Em] _ came on [Am] that fateful morning
[D] _ When they sent him to [G] his final rest _ _
Oh, my young [Am] big gal, _ _ _ [C] listen to the man _ _
No one [Am] will ever know _ _ _ [C] what I know too well _ _ _
_ And she smiled _ [F] and laid the child [C] on her breast
And [F] she'd say, I have [C] no fear
_ I'm waiting [F] for you to cross the [G] border or swim the river
[Em] Cause you've done that [D]
before
_ [Em] To see your true [Am] love smiling face [D] a hundred times [G]
or _ _ [F] _ _ more
[G] _
Oh, my gal, she [F] cried, _ _
_ _ [G] I'm loving you _ _ _ till I [C] die _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _