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The Streets Of Laredo easy guitar chords by
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

2002Country
5.0 (5)
Intro 1
G
G
G
G

G
G
G
G

Verse 1
G
D
G
D

As I walked out on the streets of Laredo
G
C
G
D

As I walked out on Laredo one day
G
D

I spied a young cowboy
G
D

wrapped in white linen
G
C
D
G

Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay
Verse 2
G
D

"I can see by your outfit
G
D

that you are a cowboy."
G
C

These words he did say
G
D

as I boldly walked by
G
D

"Come an' sit down beside me
G
D

an' hear my sad story"
G
C

"I'm shot in the breast
D
G

an' I know I must die."
Verse 3
G
D

"It was once in the saddle,
G
D

I used to go dashing"
G
C
G
D

"Once in the saddle, I used to go gay"
G
D

"First to the card-house
G
D

and then down to Rose's"
G
C

"But I'm shot in the breast
D
G

and I'm dying today."
Verse 4
G
D
G
D

"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin"
G
C
G
D

"Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pal"
G
D
G
D

"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin"
G
C
D
G

"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall."
Chorus 1
G

"Then beat the drum slowly,
C

play the Fife lowly"
G
A
D

"Play the dead march as you carry me along"
G

"Take me to the green valley,
C

lay the sod o'er me"
G

"I'm a young cowboy
D
G

and I know I've done wrong."
Verse 5
G
D

"Then go write a letter
G
D

to my gray-haired mother"
G
C

"An' tell her the cowboy
G
D

that she loved has gone"
G
D

"But please not one word
G
D

of the man who had killed me"
G
C

"Don't mention his name
D
G

and his name will pass on."
Verse 6
G
D

When thus he had spoken,
G
D

the hot sun was setting
G
C
G
D

The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay
G
D

We took the young cowboy
G
D

down to the green valley
G
C

And there stands his marker,
D
G

we made, to this day
Chorus 2
G

We beat the drum slowly
C

and played the Fife lowly
G

Played the dead march
A
D

as we carried him along
G

Down in the green valley,
C

laid the sod o'er him
G

He was a young cowboy
D
G

and he said he'd done wrong

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