The Streets Of Laredo original guitar chords by
Johnny Cash

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Key: Bb major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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F F 
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F F 
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As I   walked out on the streets of Laredo
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Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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As I   walked out on Laredo one day
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F F 
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I spied a young cowboy
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F F 
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wrapped in white linen
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Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay

Verse 2
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F F 
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"I can see by your outfit
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F F 
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that you are a cowboy."
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Eb Eb 6
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These words he did say
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F F 
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as I boldly walked by
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F F 
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"Come an' sit down beside me
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F F 
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an' hear my sad story"
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Eb Eb 6
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"I'm shot in the breast
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an' I know I must die."

Verse 3
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F F 
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"It was once in the saddle,
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F F 
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I used to go dashing"
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Eb Eb 6
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F F 
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"Once in the saddle, I used to go gay"
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F F 
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"First to the card-house
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F F 
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and then down to Rose's"
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Eb Eb 6
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"But I'm shot in the breast
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and I'm dying today."

Verse 4

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"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin"

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Eb

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F

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

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F

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"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin"

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F

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"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall."

Chorus 1
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"Then beat the drum slowly,
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play the Fife lowly"
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C C 
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"Play the dead march as you carry me along"
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"Take me to  the green valley,
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lay the sod o'er me"
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"I'm a young cowboy
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and I know I've done wrong."

Verse 5
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F F 
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"Then go  write a letter
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F F 
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to my  gray-haired mother"
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Eb Eb 6
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"An' tell her the cowboy
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F F 
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that she loved has gone"
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F F 
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"But please not one word
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F F 
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of the man who had killed me"
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Eb Eb 6
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"Don't mention his name
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and his name will pass on."

Verse 6
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F/A F/A 
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When thus he had spoken,
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the hot sun was setting
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Eb Eb 6
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F/A F/A 
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The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay
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We took the young cowboy
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down to the green valley
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Eb Eb 6
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And there stands his marker,
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we made, to this day

Chorus 2
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We beat the drum slowly
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and played the Fife lowly
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Played the dead march
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F F 
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as we carried him along
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Down in  the green valley,
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laid the sod o'er him
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He was a young cowboy
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and he said he'd done wrong

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