Sonoras Death Row chords by Jeffrey Foucault, Mark Erelli
Verse 1
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The best girl is free
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in a manor saloon
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For the boys from the old
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broken home
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Saturday nights in the town of Sonora
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Are the best in all Mexico
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They've got guitars
and trumpets
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and sweet senoritas
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Who won't wanna let you go
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You'd never believe such a happy town
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Out a street called Sonora's Death Row
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Inside Amanda's we were all
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dancin' six of Amanda's gowns
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And I want some silver,
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seven cards stuck,
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so how's I doin' my powers?
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But the whiskey and mezcal
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and queso cigars
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Drove me outside for some air
Somebody whispered,
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your life or your money
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I reached but my gun wasn't there
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I woke up face down in Aman
da's back alley
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be aware of the fool I'd been
I rushed to saddle,
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I grabbed someone's rifle
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And I entered Amanda's again
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Well I saw my partners twirlin' my pistol
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And throwin' my money around
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Blinded by anger, I jacked the lever
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And one of them fell to the
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ground
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Amanda's got silent like
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night in the desert
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My friend stirred in pure disbelief
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Amanda was kneeling beside
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the dead cowboy,
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plainly expressing her grief.
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And as I bowed my head and trembled,
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shot through me,
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my pistol was still at my side.
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I felt in my pockets, there was my money
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I fell to my knees an d I cried
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A nightmare of a mousetrap
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is all that it was
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No one to rob me at all
I wish I was dreaming
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the sound of the gallows
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They're testing just outside my wall
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And the mezcal's still free
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and Amanda's salute
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For the boys from the old
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broken home
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I'd pay Ransom to drink there today
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And be free of Sonora's
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death row
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Sonoras Death Row
Jeffrey Foucault, Mark Erelli
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