Tonight We Ride Chords by Tom Russell

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_ _ _ _ Pancho Villa [C] crossed the border in a [F] year of ought [C] sixteen
_ _ The people of Columbus [Em] still hear him [G] riding through their dreams
[Am] He killed 17 civilians.
You could hear [C] the women _ [F] scream
_ _ [C] Blackjack person on a dancing horse [G] was waiting in the wings tonight.
We [Am] ride
_ Tonight we [Em] ride
_ We'll [F] skin old [C] Pancho Villa make chaps out of his [G] hide shoot [Am] his horse
He ate a lay wasp and [F] it's 27 brides [C] tonight.
We ride
_ [F] Tonight we [C] ride
_ _ We rode for three long years the blackjack [F] person called [C] it quits when Jackie wasn't looking I
_ [G] Stole his fine spade bit.
It was [Am] tied upon his stallion
So [F] I rode away on it to the [C] wild Chihuahuan desert soldier.
[G] I you couldn't spit
Tonight we [Am] ride
You bastards there
[Em] _ _ We'll [F] kill the wild [C]
Apache for the bounty on his hair
Then [Am] we'll ride into Durango [F] climb up the whorehouse stairs [C] tonight.
We ride
[F] _ Tonight we [C] _ ride
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_ _ _ _ _ _ When I'm too damn old to sit a horse
I'll steal the warden's car break my ass out of this prison leave my [G] teeth there in a jar
You don't [Am] need no teeth for kissing gals or [F] smoking cheap cigars
[C] I'll sleep with one eye open these [G] God celestial stars tonight.
We [Am] rock _
Tonight we [Em] roll
_ _ [F] We'll rob the war [C] is liquor store for the rape facade [G] of gold and if we [Am] drink ourselves to death
Ain't that the [F] cowboy way to go tonight?
[C] We ride _
_ That we ride
_ Tonight we [Am] fly
We're heading [E] west
_ _ Toward the [F] mountains and [C] the ocean where the eagle makes his [G] nest if our [Am] bones fleets on the desert
We'll [F] consider we are blessed tonight.
We [C] ride
_ [F] Tonight [C] we ride
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[F] _ _ _ Tonight [C] we ride _
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