Tonight We Ride Chords by Tom Russell

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_ _ _ _ of the people of Columbus.
Pancho Villa crossed the border [F] in the year of [C] about 16.
_ The people of Columbus still [G] hear him riding through their dreams.
[Am] He killed 17 civilians, [F] you could hear the women scream.
_ _ [C] Blackjack person on a dancing horse [G] was waiting in the wings.
[Am] Tonight we ride, [Em] tonight we ride.
_ [F] We'll skin old [C] Pancho Villa, make shafts out of [G] his hide.
Shoot [Am] his horse, C8, De La Was, and [F] his 27 brides.
[C] Tonight we ride, [F] tonight [C] we ride.
_ We rode for three long years till Blackjack [F] person [C] called it quits.
When Jackie wasn't looking, [G] I stole his fine spade bit.
[Am] It was tied upon his stallion [F] so I rode away on it.
[C] To the wild Chihuahuan desert, [G] so dry you couldn't spit.
[Am] Tonight we ride, you [Em] bastards dare.
_ [F] We'll kill the [C] wild Apache for the bounty [G] on his hair.
[Am] Then we'll ride into Durango, [F] climb up the whorehouse stairs.
[C] Tonight we [F] ride, [C] tonight we ride.
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_ When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, [F] I'll steal [C] the warden's car.
Break my ass out of this prison, [G] leave my teeth there in a jar.
You [Am] don't need no teeth for kissing gals [F] or smoking cheap cigars.
[C] I'll sleep with one eye open, [G] beneath God's celestial stars.
Tonight [Am] we rock, [D] tonight [Em] we roll.
_ [F] We'll rob the [C] Juarez liquor store for the Ray Persada [G] gold.
And if [Am] we drink ourselves to death, ain't that [F] the cowboy way to go?
Tonight [C] we ride, [F] _ [C] tonight we ride.
_ [Am] Tonight we fly, we're [Em] heading west.
_ [F] Toward the mountains [C] and the ocean where the eagle [G] makes his nest.
[Am] If our bones bleach on the desert, [F] we'll consider we are blessed.
[C] Tonight we [F] ride, [C] tonight we ride.
You talk.
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_ _ [C] we ride, [F] _ [C] tonight we ride. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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