Gringo Honeymoon Chords by Robert Earl Keen Jr (Key of D)


Robert Earl Keen Jr.
"Gringo Honeymoon"



Intro
[Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D]

[D]                     [Em]
We were standing on a mountain top

[G]                        [D]
Where the cactus flowers grow

[D]                      [Em]
I was wishing that the world would stop,

[G]                         [D]
When you said we'd better go.

[D]                            [Em]
We took a rowboat 'cross the Rio Grande,

[G]                     [D]
Captain Pablo was our guide.

[D]                    [C]
For two dollars in a weathered hand

[G]                        [D]
He rowed us to the other side.



CHORUS
[A]
And we were dreamin' like

[Bm]
The end was not in sight

[G]                       [D]
And we dreamed all afternoon.

[A]
We asked the world to wait

[Bm]
So we could celebrate

[G] (ring)      [Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D]
a Gringo Honeymoon



[D]                        [Em]
We stepped out onto the golden sand

[G]                            [D]
The sun was high and burning down

[D]                         [Em]
Rented donkeys from an old blind man

[G]              [D]
Saddled up and rode to town

[D]                      [Em]
Tied our donkeys to an ironwood tree

[G]                                [D]
By the street where the children play

[D]                            [C]
We walked in the first place we could see

[G]                        [D]
Servin' cold beer in the shade


CHORUS
[A]
We were drinkin' like

[Bm]
the end was not in sight

[G]                     [D]
And we drank all afternoon

[A]
We asked the world to wait

[Bm]
so we could celebrate

[G] (ring)      [Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D]
A gringo honeymoon



[D]                          [Em]
Met a cowboy who said that he

[G]                     [D]
Was running from the DEA

[D]                         [Em]
He left a home, a wife, a family

[G]                   [D]
When he made his getaway

[D]                                   [Em]
We followed him on down a street of dust

[G]                        [D]
To his one room run-down shack

[D]                           [C]
He blew a smoke ring and he smiled at us

[G]                   [D]
I ain't never goin' back


CHORUS
[A]
We were flyin' like

[Bm]
the end was not in sight

[G]                      [D]
And we soared all afternoon

[A]
We asked the world to wait

[Bm]
so we could celebrate

[G] (ring)      [Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D]
A gringo honeymoon




[D]                                   [Em]
He said there's one last place that you should go

[G]                             [D]
He took us to the town's best bar

[D]                     [Em]
He knew a crusty caballero

[G]                               [D]
Who played an old gut string guitar

[D]                       [Em]
And he sang like Marty Robbins could

[G]                       [D]
Played like no one I've known

[D]                        [C]
For a while we knew that life was good

[G]                        [D]
It was ours to take back home


CHORUS
[A]
We were singin' like

[Bm]
the end was not in sight

[G]                    [D]
And we sang all afternoon

[A]
We asked the world to wait

[Bm]
so we could celebrate

[G] (ring)      [Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D]
A gringo honeymoon



[D] (spoken)            [Em]
We were standin' on a mountain top

[G]                        [D]
Where the cactus flowers grow

[D]                      [Em]
I was wishin' that the world would stop

[G]           [G]
When you said...

             [Dsus], [D], [Dsus], [D] (outro)
we'd better go

--End--

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