Sonora's Death Row chords by Dave Alvin
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Me and the boy's we cinched
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up our saddles and rode to sonora last night
Gun's hanging proud,
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daring out loud for any one looking to fight
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Card cheats and rustlers would run for their holes
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when the boys from the old broken O
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Rode up and reined on the street that they
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named Sonora's death row
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Mescal is free at Amanda's saloon for the boy's from the old broken O
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Verse 2
Saturday
nights in the town of Sonora
are the best in all Mexico
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They've got guitars and trumpets and
sweet senoritas who won't want to let you go
You'd never believe such a gay happy time on
the street called Sonora's death row
Verse 3
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Inside Amanda's we was a dancin'
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with all of Amanda's gals
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I won some silver at seven card stud
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so I was out doin' my pals
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But the whiskey and mescal,
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peso cigars drove me outside for some air
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Somebody whispered "Your life or your money",
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I reached but my gun wasn't there
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woke up face down in Amanda's back
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alley aware of the fool I had been
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Rushed to my pony, grabbed my Winchester
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and entered Amanda's again
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Where I saw my partners twirling my pistols
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and throwing my money around
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Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever and one of them
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fell to the ground
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Amanda's got silent like night in the desert,
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my friends stared in pure disbelief
Verse 5
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Amanda was kneeling beside the dead
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cowboy plainly expressing her grief
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And as I bowed my head a trembled shot through
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me my six- gun was still at my side
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I felt my pockets, there was my money,
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I fell to my knees and I cried
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A nightmare of mescal is all that it was
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for no one had robbed me at all
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I wish I was dreaming the sound of
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the gallows they're testing just outside
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Verse 6
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The mescal's still free at Amanda's saloon
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for the boy's from the old Broken O
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I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be
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free of Sonora's death row
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I'd give a ransom to drink there today and be free of Sonora's death row
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Sonora's Death Row
Dave Alvin
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