Running Gun chords by Michael Martin Murphey

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Verse 1
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I rode out of Kansas
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City heading south to Mexico
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I was running dodging danger,
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left the girl that I loved so
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Far behind lay Kansas City and  the past
that I had earned
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Twenty notches on my six gun marked
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the lessons I had learned

Verse 2
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Many times I sold my fast gun
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for a place to lay my head
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Till the nights began to haunt me by
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the men that I lay dead
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Couldn't stand it any longer with
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this life that I'd begun
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So I said good- bye to Jeannie
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and became a running gun

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Verse 3
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I rode into Amarillo as
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the sun sank in the west
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My thoughts in Kansas City and
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the girl that I love best
As I smiled and kissed her gently
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and then turned away to go
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Said I'd send for her to meet
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me when I reached old Mexico
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I had barely left

Verse 4
the saddle and my foot
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just touched the ground
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When a cold voice from the shadows
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told me not to turn around
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Said he new about my fast gun knew
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the price paid by the law
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Challenged by a bounty hunter
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I turned around to draw

Verse 5
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I knew someday I'd meet him for
his hand like lightning flashed
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My own gun stayed in leather
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as his bullet tore it's path
As my strength was slowly fading,
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I could see him walk away
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And I knew that where I lie today,
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he too must lie some day
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Now my strength is slowly fading

Verse 6
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and my eyes are growing dim
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And my thoughts return to Jeannie
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And the home that we
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had planned
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Oh please tell her won't you mister
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That she's still the only one
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But a woman's love is waisted when she loves
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a running gun
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