Tall Handsome Stranger chords by
Marty Robbins
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Key: C minor
Verse 1
Cm
Cm

Cm
Cm

Cm
Cm

Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

A tall handsome stranger rode into town
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

With fire in his eyes burning red as sundown
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

His boots were all dusty, his coat open wide
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

Six ways of dying hung low on his side
Verse 2
Cm
Cm

Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

He went in the town hall asking for me
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

They told me that I was still town deputy
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

I sent him to prison to pay for his crime
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

He killed a guard on the Sante Fe line
Verse 3
Cm
Cm

He spread word around town
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

that my time had come
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

My notch was already carved on his gun
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

He's laughing and braggin and having his fun
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

It's all a show for he knows I won't run
Chorus 1
Ab
Ab

Bb
Bb

That night in silence the town was asleep
Ab
Ab

I sat by my window
Eb
Eb

and looked down the street
Fm
Fm

G
G

Cm
Cm

I wished in my heart that he just ride away
Fm
Fm

G
G

Cm
Cm

I hated to face him next sunup that day
Verse 4
Cm
Cm

I met him at sunup,
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

the crowd gathered round
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

Waitin and watching for one to go down
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

He grabbed for his six gun, tryin his best
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

He cursed as my bullet
G
G

Cm
Cm

went deep in his chest
Verse 5
Cm
Cm

He stood there a moment
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

and looked all around
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

Slowly and lifeless he fell to the ground
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

The stranger's my brother, born an outlaw
Fm
Fm

Cm
Cm

G
G

Cm
Cm

He must have forgotton I taught him to draw
Chorus 2
Ab
Ab

The whole town was waiting
Bb
Bb

and I was alone
Ab
Ab

Eb
Eb

The blood that I spilled was just like my own
Fm
Fm

G
G

When she hears this story,
Cm
Cm

how Mother will cry
Fm
Fm

G
G

Cm
Cm

Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die
To die, to die
[Fade out]

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