Key: E major
Verse 1
E
F#m
G
E
F#m
G
E
Well I must've
walked for fourteen days
All that I could carry and I made my way
To the new holy land not
a grand parade
to find some work
Just stood there waiting round
in the Texas dirt
And now I lay concrete
F#m
G
Then it's back to the hotel split a case of
Verse 2
E
beer
G
Em
living here
E
D
G
D
Four dollars an hour but nobody moans
E
F#m
Cause it's three fifty more than we
G
E
can get back home
G
E
to my sweet wife
G
E
better life
G
D
to make it fine
E
G
E
Fifty miles north of that Il legal line
A
E
F#m
G
E
F#m
G
E
Verse 3
With guns and lights screaming
get on the floor
They cuffed us up tight and hauled
A
E
us all away
Early next morning judge drug us in
G
E
like guilty men
F#m
G
D
He said any of you boys got a thing to say
E
F#m
I asked him what would he do if
G
E
he were in my place
G
E
just ain't the way
G
E
just can't wait
G
D
I'm doing time
E
D
G
E
F#m
G
E
Fifty miles north of that Illegal line
Outro 1
A
D
A
G
E
F#m
G
E
F#m
G
E
F#m
G
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F#
G
E
Em
E
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE F#m G D Em...
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