Chords for SMUGGLERS BLUES by Jack Tempchin

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_ _ _ _ _ _ And I'm going to sing a song called,
Struggle on the street tonight, [B] I feel it [E] in my bones. _
[Em] Had a premonition, he should not go along.
I knew the gun was loaded, I didn't think he'd kill.
Everything exploded and the blood began to spill.
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Baby, here's your ticket, key case in your hand.
Here's a little money, dude, just the way we play it.
[Em] Sit cool for twenty hours, I'll pay you twenty grand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Yeah, [B] I'm sorry it went down like this.
Someone had to [A] lose the nature of the business. _ _ _ _ _
Smugglers, blues, [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ sailors and the pilots [A] and the soldiers and the [Gm] [E] law.
Payoffs, [G] rip-offs, things nobody saw.
Don't matter if it's [A] heroin or cocaine or [G] hash.
You gotta carry weapons, cause [Em] you're dealing in [A] cash.
Lots of shady characters making dirty deals.
Every name's an alias in case somebody steals.
[Em] Blue is easy money, [D] it's got a [Em] very strong appeal. _ _
_ Yeah, [B] you'd understand it better standing in my [A] shoes.
Ultimate enticement, it's the, _ _ woo, smugglers [E] blues. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [G] See it in the headlines, you hear it every day.
They say they're gonna stop it, [Em] but it doesn't go away.
They move it through Miami, sell it in L.A.
They hide it in Tijuana, [E] and it's here to [A] stay.
Propping up the government in Colombia and Peru.
S-L-E-D, amen, there's nothing we can do.
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Office [Em] of the President right down to me and you. _
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lose a proposition, one you can't [A] refuse.
Politics and contraband, it's the [G] _ _ _ _
smugglers blues.
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