Chords for Roger Creager performs "Long Way to Mexico" on The Texas Music Scene

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_ _ _ [C] Here's the pride of Corpus Christi, Texas, [E] Mr.
Roger
Crager, with a live performance of the title track of one of his
[A] biggest albums, Long Way to Mexico, right here on the Texas
music [E] scene.
_ Long Way to Mexico is, I had written [A] the chorus,
_ [G] _ oh God, a long time ago.
It was when I [A] first graduated from
college, _ and I moved to Houston, and I was stuck in traffic.
All I could think about _ was heading south, _ calling up some
buddies and saying, meet me in Laredo, meet me in Matamoros,
_ somewhere, we're going to go _ [E] _
drink margaritas and beer like
we did on [A] spring break, and get me anywhere but out [D] of this
traffic.
_ [A] And so, I had this idea, and I used to [E] kind of just
play around with it, and then [A] years later, _ a good friend of
mine, Jeremy Elliott, songwriter buddy of mine, [E] _ we wrote the
verses to that song.
And I can remember [A] the first time that we
played that, _ _ _ [D] it was back [A] when _ me and Pat Green and Robert Earl
Keene and [E] Waybo and all of us used to still play at the Corona
Club [A]
over in Acuna.
_ And I thought, _ you know, I played it for
another buddy of [D] mine, and he goes, oh my God, [A] is Long Way to
Mexico, [E] every show you ever [C#] do from now on in Acuna is going to
[E] be sold out.
And we did one, and then they started killing each
[A] other down there, and we haven't been back since.
So he was right.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ One, two, one, two, three. _
_ There's a warm breeze blowing [C]
from the south, so I need to get
going, [G] the palm trees and beaches call my [D] name. _ _
_ _ [G] There's a bar
that I know well there, [C] we could drink and breathe in the Sierra
[G] Lane, the [D] sun, the sand, [G] and the rain. _
_ _ [D] Got a place where [C] everyone _
[D] knows your _ name.
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Sound music on the stereo, _ [Em] blue bonnet on the
passing road, [F] it's [C] Long Way to [D] Mexico.
_ _ [Bm] Going there tonight,
[G] time to migrate is up, [Em] I'm doing 90 in this pickup [F] truck, Long
[C] Way to [D] Mexico.
_ _ Here we go.
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_ I know about this out of the way
[C] place, we could disappear without [G] a trace, leave the world
behind, [D] _ _ lonely for a _ [G] while, we could just get a roll in, see [C] the
winding road unfolding, [G] feeling better with every passing mile. _
_ _ _ [D] But even [G] the kid in there makes [D] me _ _ _ [G] smile.
Sound music on the
stereo, _ [Em] _
wildflowers on the passing road, [F] it's [C] Long Way to [D] Mexico.
_ _ Going there [G]
tonight, time to migrate is up, [Em] I'm doing 90 in my
pickup [F] truck, Long [C] Way to [D] Mexico.
_ [G] Squeeze it again.
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[G] _ _ _ [Em] It's a place
of _ señoritas, [Bm] and remadeaches sing, [C] _
I know happiness abounds,
[D] there is a place _ I'll [G] soon _ _ _ be.
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_ _ _ _ _ [G] Sound music on the stereo, _ [Em] palm
trees on the passing road, [F] it's [C] Long Way to [D] Mexico.
_ _ [Bm] Going there
tonight, [G] time to migrate is up, [Em] I'm doing 90 in this pickup [F] truck,
Long [C] Way to _
[D] Mexico.
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