Tall Handsome Stranger chords by
Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins

1963Country150 views
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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
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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
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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
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Fm
Cm
Cm
that my time had come
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Fm
Cm
Cm
G
G
Cm
Cm
My notch was already carved on his gun
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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
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Ab
I sat by my window
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Eb
and looked down the street
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Fm
G
G
Cm
Cm
I wished in my heart that he just ride away
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Fm
G
G
Cm
Cm
I hated to face him next sunup that day
Verse 4
Cm
Cm
I met him at sunup,
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Fm
Cm
Cm
the crowd gathered round
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Fm
Cm
Cm
G
G
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Waitin and watching for one to go down
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He grabbed for his six gun, tryin his best
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Fm
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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
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Fm
Cm
Cm
G
G
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Cm
He must have forgotton I taught him to draw
Chorus 2
Ab
Ab
The whole town was waiting
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Bb
and I was alone
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Ab
Eb
Eb
The blood that I spilled was just like my own
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Fm
G
G
When she hears this story,
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Cm
how Mother will cry
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Fm
G
G
Cm
Cm
Brother 'gainst brother and one had to die
To die, to die
[Fade out]

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