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New Life in Old Mexico chords by 
Robert Earl KeenJr.
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Intro 1
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D
C
D
G
D
C
D
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Verse 1
G
I crossed the Mississippi,
Em
Turned south at San Antone
D
A bowie knife, a woolen coat,
C
G
A grip bag on my arm
It's all somebody needs to make
Em
D
it through the land
Walk the night, travel light,
C
G
cross the Rio Grande
Em
C
Someone strums a mandolin,
G
D
soft gulf breezes blow
G
C
D
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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I was once a married man
Em
D
livin' peacefully
Hard to say exactly when the
C
G
devil blinded me
But there was some confusion
Em
when my sweet
D
Wife left this world
Darker times, drunken crimes,
C
G
Em
A dead young working girl
C
Left a jailer there in Caroline,
G
D
Watching me from down be low
G
C
D
My new life is waiting in
G
old Mexico
Verse 3
Em
C
Em
Livin' in the shadows
C
Runnin' from my fame
G
F
Blowin' where the wind blows
C
Where no one knows my name
D
Verse 4
G
In the El Vaquero Bar in the
Em
D
town of Eagle Pass
Moments from my freedom warm
C
G
whiskey in my glass
Some boracho took me for the man
Em
who stole his wife
D
He went for his forty-four as as
C
G
I reached for my knife
Em
He never fired a second
C
G
D
shot he was just too slow
G
C
D
G
My new life is waiting in old Mexico
Interlude 2
Em
C
G
F
C
D
Em
C
G
C
D
G
Verse 5
G
Em
I hear of hidden harbors south
of Mazatlan
D
Where cool spring mountain waters
C
G
Meet the warm Pacific sun
I pray the miles I've traveled
Em
D
and all the sins I bear
Burn away like mornin' fog and
C
G
Em
vanish in the air
C
Miles beyond the border now,
G
D
but many miles to go
G
C
D
G
My new life is waiting
Em
C
D
G
in old Mexico
Outro 1
G
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