The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance chords by Gene Pitney, The Echoes
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Intro 1
(B minor) (D major)
Verse 1
When Liberty (D major) Val
ance (A major) rode to (G major) town
The womenfolk (B minor) would hide,
they'd (G major) hide (A major)
When Liberty (D major) Valance walked (A major) (D major) around (G major)
The men (D major) would step (F sharp minor) aside (B minor)
(F sharp minor) 'Cause the
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Verse 2
point of a gun (A major)
was the only (C sharp minor) (A major) law
(C sharp minor) That (F sharp minor) Liberty under (G major) stood
(A major) When it (D major) came to shoot
(B minor) ing straight and fast (G major)
He was mighty (B minor) (G major) good
(D major)
Verse 3
From (A major) out of the (D major) East a stranger (G major) came
A law book in his (B minor) hand, a man (G major) (A major)
The kind of a man (D major) the West would need (G major)
To tame a troubled land (B minor)
Verse 4
'Cause the (F sharp minor) point of a gun
was the (C sharp minor) only law
That (F sharp minor) Liberty under (G major) stood
(A major) When it (D major) came to shooting (F sharp minor)
straight (B minor) and fast (G major)
He was mighty (B minor) good
Verse 5
Many (B minor) a man (F sharp minor) would (B minor) face his gun
And many a man (F sharp minor) would fall (G major)
(A major) The (D major) man who shot (F sharp minor) Liberty (B minor) Valance
He shot Liberty Valance
(G major) He was the bravest of them all
Interlude 1
(G major) (B minor) (G major) (D major)
(A major) The love of a girl
Verse 6
(D major) can make
a man (G major) stay on
When (D major) he should (B minor) go, stay (G major) on
(A major) Just (Asus4) trying (A major) to build (D major) a peaceful (G major) life
Where love is (D major) free to grow (B minor)
Verse 7
But the (F sharp minor) point of a gun was the (C sharp minor) only law
That (F sharp minor) Liberty under (G major) stood
(A major) When the (D major) final showdown (F sharp minor) (B minor) came at last (G major)
A law book was no good
(D major)
Verse 8
(B flat major)
Alone and afraid,
(E flat major) she prayed that (A flat major) he'd
Return that fateful (C minor) night, oh that night (A flat major) (B flat major)
When nothing she said (E flat major)
could keep her man (A flat major)
From going out (C minor) to fight
Verse 9
From the (G minor) moment a girl
(G major) gets to (D minor) be full grown
The (G minor) very first thing she (A flat major) learns
(B flat major) When two (E flat major) men (C minor) go out
to face each other (A flat major)
Only one re (C minor) turns
Verse 10
(C minor) Everyone heard two shots ring out
One shot made Liberty fall
(B flat major) The (E flat major) man who shot (C minor) Liberty Valence
He shot Liberty Valance (A flat major)
He was (A flat minor) the bravest (A flat major)
of them all
(C minor)
Verse 11
The man who shot Liberty Valance
He shot Liberty Valance (A flat major)
Outro 1
He was the bravest of them all
(A flat major) (C minor)
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