Тональность: C major•
Verse 1
C
F
C
I got my discharge
from Fort Irwin
F
C
Took a place on the San Diego county line
F
C
Felt funny bein' a civilian again
C
My wife had died a year ago
F
I was still tryin' to find
F
Went to work for the INS on
C
the line
F
G
C
With the California Border Patrol
Verse 2
C
Bobby Ramirez was a ten-
We became friends
C
F
C
His family was from Guanajuato
G
So the job it was different for him
C
He said' "They risk death in the
deserts and mountains"
F
Pay all they got to the smugglers rings,
C
F
We send 'em home and they
C
come right back again
G
Carl, hunger is a powerful thing."
C
Verse 3
F
Well I was good at doin'
F
C
Kept my uniform pressed and clean
F
C
At night I chased their shadows
G
Through the arroyos and ravines
Verse 4
farmers with their families,
F
Young women with little
C
children by their sides
F
Come night we'd wait
G
Em
And try to keep 'em from
G
C
crossin' the line
Verse 5
C
Well the first time that I saw her
F
C
She was in the holdin' pen
F
C
Our eyes met and she looked away
G
Then she looked back again
C
Her hair was black as coal
F
Her eyes reminded me
F
C
She had a young child cryin' in her arms
And I asked, "Senora,
G
C
is there anything I can do"
Verse 6
F
C
There's a bar in Tijuana
drink alongside
C
The same people we'd
G
sent back the day before
C
F
Am
We met there she said
C
She was from sonora and had just
Am
F
We danced and I held her in my arms
C
F
C
And I knew what I would do
F
She said she had some family
If she, her child and her young
G
er brother could just get through
C
Verse 7
At night they come across
the levy
F
C
In the searchlights dusty glow
F
C
We'd rush 'em in our Broncos
And force 'em back down
G
into the river below
C
She climbed into my truck
F
C
She leaned towards me and we kissed
F
As we drove her brothers
G
And I saw the tape across his chest
C
Verse 8
Am
F
We were just about on the highway
When Bobby's jeep come
C
G
C
up in the dust on my right
Am
I pulled over and let my
C
G
Am
And stepped out into his lights
I felt myself movin'
F
C
G
Felt my gun restin'
F
C
We stood there starin' at each other
G
C
As off through the arroyo she ran
Verse 9
C
Bobby Ramirez he never said nothin'
F
C
Six months later I left the line
F
C
I drifted to the central valley
G
And took what work I could find
C
At night I searched the local
F
bars
C
And the migrant towns
F
Lookin' for my Louisa
C
G
C
With the black hair fallin'
Outro 1
down
C
F
C
F
C
C
G
Как бы вы оценили эту песню?
, чтобы оставить оценку.
ТюнерE A D G B E
АккордыC F G Em Am
Популярные аккорды во всём мире
Самые популярные аккорды и табы среди всех пользователей