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Robert Earl Keen - Sonora's Death Row (Chord)
Album: West Textures (1993)
Submitter: kburgess14 (3) on 9/24/02 6 comments
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Sonora's Death Row
by Robert Earl Keen Jr.

Capo at 3rd fret

C                   Am                         F                   C
Me and the boy's we cinched up our saddles and rode to sonora last night
C                    Am                  F                  C
Gun's hanging proud, daring out loud for any one looking to fight
F                              C                            F
G
Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes when the boys from the
old broken O
C                         Am                     F              C
Rode up and reined on the street that they named Sonora's death row


(same progression throughout whole song)

Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora are the best in all Mexico
They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas who won't want to let
you go
You'd never believe such a gay happy time on the street called Sonora's
death row

Inside Amanda's we was a dancin' with all of Amanda's gals
I won some silver at seven card stud so I was out doin' my pals
But the whiskey and mescal, peso cigars drove me outside for some air
Somebody whispered "Your life or your money", I reached but my gun wasn't there

Break:

I woke up face down in Amanda's back alley aware of the fool I had been
Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester and entered Amanda's again
Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols and throwing my money around
Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them fell to the ground

Amanda's got silent like night in the desert, my friends stared in pure
disbelief
Amanda was kneeling beside the dead cowboy plainly expressing her grief
And as I bowed my head a trembled shot through me my six-gun was still at
my side
I felt my pockets, there was my money, I fell to my knees and I cried

A nightmare of mescal is all that it was for no one had robbed me at all
I wish I was dreaming the sound of the gallows they're testing just outside
the wall
The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old Broken O
I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row
I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row


---this is a great song, by far one of his best. As you try to learn how to play 
this song, pay attention to the lyrics and they are great, he makes it sound like a 
scene from a western. 



Kyle Burgess---kburgess14 at hotmail.com

 
 Comments (click here to add a non-facebook comment)
This song was written by Kevin Farrell
just to give credit where it is due
I believe it goes:
Amanda's went silent that night in the desert
and/ I dropped my hand a tremble shot through me my six-gun was still at my side

-rockbilly | 7/23/2004
Im pretty sure its:
"As I bowed my head, a tremble shot through me"
-Murph316 | 1/6/2005
Great tab by the way
-Murph316 | 1/6/2005
the intro that Axe did was with the Capo on 1, so if you want to blend the two you can use the following chords for C,Am,F,G: D,Bm,G,A respectively with a Capo on 1. Have fun and Gig 'em!
-cadetaylor | 11/16/2005
I always took it to be "As I found my head, a tremble shot through me.."
-jasondoit | 8/4/2008
I always took it to be "As I found my head, a tremble shot through me.."
-jasondoit | 8/4/2008
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