New Life in Old Mexico
New Life in Old Mexico

New Life in Old Mexico easy guitar chords by Robert Earl Keen, Jr.

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 2

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Transpose

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Capo

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Em

  • F

  • G

  • D

  • C

  • Em

  • F

    • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    I 
    crossed 
    the Mississippi, 


    Turned 
    south 
    at 
    San 
    Antone 

    A bowie 
    knife, 
    a woolen 
    coat, 

    A grip 
    bag 
    on 
    my 
    arm 

    It's 
    all 
    somebody 
    needs 
    to make 

    it 
    through 
    the 
    land 

    Walk 
    the night, 
    travel 
    light, 

    cross 
    the 
    Rio 
    Grande 

    Someone 
    strums 
    a man
    dolin, 

    soft 
    gulf 
    breezes 
    blow 

    My 
    new 
    life 
    is 
    waiting 
    in 
    old 
    Mex
    ico 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 2
    I 
    was 
    once 
    a married 
    man 

    livin' 
    peacefully 

    Hard 
    to say 
    exactly 
    when 
    the 

    dev
    il 
    blinded 
    me 

    But 
    there 
    was some 
    confusion 

    when 
    my 
    sweet 

    Wife 
    left 
    this 
    world 

    Darker 
    times, 
    drunken 
    crimes, 

    A 
    dead 
    young 
    working 
    girl 

    Left 
    a jailer 
    there 
    in 
    Caroline, 

    Watching 
    me 
    from 
    down 
    be
    low 

    My 
    new 
    life 
    is 
    waiting 
    in 

    old 
    Mex
    ico 

    Verse 3

    Livin' 
    in 
    the shadows 

    Runnin' 
    from 
    my 
    fame 

    Blowin' 
    where 
    the 
    wind 
    blows 

    Where 
    no 
    one 
    knows 
    my 
    name 

    Verse 4

    In 
    the 
    El 
    Vaquero 
    Bar 
    in the 

    town 
    of 
    Eagle 
    Pass 

    Moments 
    from my 
    freedom 
    warm 

    whiskey 
    in 
    my 
    glass 

    Some 
    boracho took 
    me 
    for 
    the man 

    who 
    stole 
    his 
    wife 

    He 
    went 
    for 
    his 
    forty-four 
    as 
    as 

    I 
    reached 
    for 
    my 
    knife 

    He 
    never 
    fired 
    a second 

    shot 
    he 
    was 
    just 
    too 
    slow 

    My 
    new 
    life 
    is 
    waiting 
    in 
    old 
    Mex
    ico 

    Interlude 2



    Verse 5
    I 
    hear 
    of hidden 
    harbors 
    south 

    of 
    Mazatlan 

    Where cool 
    spring 
    mountain 
    waters 

    Meet 
    the 
    warm 
    Pacific 
    sun

    I 
    pray 
    the 
    miles 
    I've 
    traveled 

    and 
    all 
    the 
    sins 
    I 
    bear 

    Burn 
    away 
    like 
    mornin' 
    fog 
    and 

    vanish 
    in 
    the 
    air 

    Miles 
    beyond 
    the 
    bor
    der 
    now, 

    but 
    many 
    miles 
    to 
    go 

    My 
    new 
    life 
    is 
    waiting 

    in 
    old 
    Mex
    ico 

    Outro 1

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