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Beside The Rio Grande easy guitar chords by 
Strawbs
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Intro 1
D
Am
Em
G
Em
Am
Em
Am
Verse 1
Am
Em
Strawbs - Beside The Rio Grande
Am
It happened rather suddenly that
the Preacher came to town
With stories from the Testaments
Em
of men of great reknown
Am
With his box of patent medicines
Em
he swore to cure all ills
Am
From the lameness in the horses,
Em
to the children's colds and chills
Am
And he had along his Indian wife
Em
and a country music band
Am
F
Who sang of peace and brotherhood be
Am
side the Rio Grande.
G
Am
Verse 2
G
Am
Now the Preacher quickly gathered
Em
sick and poor from miles around
Am
Who came to him for comfort and to
Em
hear his country sound
Am
But the may or thought he was trouble
Em
when he spoke against the law
Am
And he saw the growing power of the
crowds that he could draw
And he worried when the Preacher
bought himself a plot of land
F
To settle with his family beside
Am
the Rio Grande.
Verse 3
Am
The saloon was pretty crowded and the
Em
stakes was a-running high
high
Am
And the girls sang sentimental songs
Em
that made us cowboys cry
Am
We began to criticise the Preacher
Em
marrying a squaw
Am
G
And how could he associate with cripples,
C
D
drunks and whores
Em
Am
And in a crazy fit the Preacher scattered
Em
chips and winning hands
Am
And condemned it as a den of vice
F
C
D
beside the Rio Grande.
Dm
Now the
Verse 4
Am
boys were drunk and rowdy,
Em
and mostly pretty mean
Am
And we dragged him to the sidewalk
Em
and whipped his shoulders clean
Am
We said he was responsible for
Em
bringing on the drought
Am
That had burned off all the spring grass
Em
and had wiped the young herd out
Am
The sheriff would not get involved,
Em
the law could take no hand
Am
C
The Preacher had not harmed a soul.
Verse 5
Am
We pegged him on the hillside along
Em
side two Apache braves
Am
Who'd been given picks and shovels
Em
and been made to dig their graves
Am
And when he asked for water stood
Em
and pissed around his feet
Am
While his tongue swelled up and blackened
G
C
D
in the burning desert heat
Em
Am
And someone said we ought to mark
Em
the Preacher with a brand
Am
To show that he did not belong
F
Am
beside the Rio Grande.
Verse 6
Am
Then the sky began to darken and
a breeze whipped up the dust
F
C
Am
And some of us were frightened
G
while others swore and cursed
Am
And the Preacher said a few words
Em
F
with his final dying breath
C
About forgiving us for what we had
G
C
D
done to bring about his death
Em
Am
And as the night began to fall we
Em
covered him with sand
Am
C
And left his weary bones to bleach.
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