Key: A major
Intro 1
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E
D
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D
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Verse 1
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A
A grip bag on my arm
It's all somebody needs to make
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it through the land
Walk the night, travel light,
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cross the Rio Grande
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D
Someone strums a mandolin,
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E
soft gulf breezes blow
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D
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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livin' peacefully
Hard to say exactly when the
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devil blinded me
But there was some confusion
Darker times, drunken crimes,
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F#m
A dead young working girl
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E
Watching me from down be low
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D
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My new life is waiting in
Verse 3
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F#m
Livin' in the shadows
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G
Blowin' where the wind blows
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Verse 4
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In the El Vaquero Bar in the
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town of Eagle Pass
Moments from my freedom warm
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whiskey in my glass
Some boracho took me for the man
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I reached for my knife
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shot he was just too slow
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D
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My new life is waiting in old Mexico
Interlude 2
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G
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D
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Verse 5
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F#m
I hear of hidden harbors south
of Mazatlan
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Meet the warm Pacific sun
I pray the miles I've traveled
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and all the sins I bear
Burn away like mornin' fog and
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F#m
vanish in the air
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but many miles to go
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My new life is waiting
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in old Mexico
Outro 1
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA E D F#m G
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