Gunslinger chords by The Limeliters

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Verse 1
Em 
When we were asked by
RCA
Victor to make a recording in concert,
of course,
we were asked simultaneously to try to knock
some of the polish off our performance.
I feel that tonight we've succeeded
beyond their wildest expectations.
A song now that's grown out of perhaps one of the
principal cultural phenomena of our time,
the mass craving for greater
and greater
Western spectaculars and
the subsequent
switch in motivation that
we find in the villain.
Years ago the villain of course
was driven by the grossest
possible goals.
Money.
Women.
Now we see a shift in
emphasis towards a psychological
motivation.
There's no such thing as a
C 
a bad cowpoke, only a sick one.
Em 
C 
Em 
C 
Em 
C 
Em 
Gunslinger,
Gunslinger,
Gunslinger,
Gunslinger
C 
Gunslinger,
Em 
Gunslinger, where did you go wrong?
When you were a child of the
A 
Cheyenne and
Am 
Sioux
Em 
C 
Refused to play nicely with you
Em 
B 
Did you always feel you didn't belong?
Bm 
Em 
Gunslinger!
You killed 130 men, old buddy
Gunslinger!
Gunslinger!
C 
D 
G 
B 
And now you wanna settle down
Em 
B 
But other  gunslingers
C 
are a -gunning for you
Em 
And a man's gotta do what
C 
a man's gotta do
Em 
Old buddy!
C 
Gunslinger, gunslinger,
Em 
why you act so strange
When you were a child were
C 
you forced to compete
Em 
C 
With brothers that you never could beat
Em 
Did you come from a broken
Bm 
B 
Bm 
home on the range?
Em 
Old buddy,
don't wear your guns in town today
Old buddy, gunslinger,
gunslinger, last night
C 
Last night you cried out,
G 
B 
Mommy, dear
Em 
C 
You got a recurrent dream in your craw
Em 
And that dream of your ma
C 
will inhibit your draw
Em 
Oh, buddy
Oh, buddy
Oh, buddy
G 
Yippee -aye -yay
Em 
Yippee -aye -oh
B 
Gunslinger, gunslinger
C 
Em 
Please take my advice
You know in your mind that
C 
you're plum insecure
Em 
C 
Em 
Am 
And that killin' a man is real immature
C 
Em 
Bm 
It is just an attention -get
Em 
ting divide
Gunslinger!
C 
There you lie, dead in the dust
Em 
Old buddy
C 
G 
Em 
Old buddy
C 
And  now,
D 
G 
B 
and now your myth begins
Em 
Out in the
C 
West, the folks all believe
Em 
D 
You've faced and killed
Em 
the toughest hombres
C 
Am 
Em 
B 
of your day
A 
Am 
Em 
But time has exposed your feet of clay
Recent research has clearly shown that
93 .6 % of the gunmen you killed
A 
We're simply accident
D 
Em 
C 
-prone gunslingers!