Chords for "Hills of Mexico" by Bruce Molsky

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When [Em] I was in old Fort Worth in [D] 1883, said it was an old [Bm] cow puncher, keep [D] stepping up
to me, said how you young fellow and how'd you like to go, and spend pleasant season
down with me in Mexico. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Well I [Bm] had full employment [D] so cool minded say, do your wages according to your pay,
I will pay you good wages and often to you know, it be spent pleasant season in those
hills of Mexico. _ _ _ _
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And with all this flattered talking we signed up quite a train, there were ten or twelve
in number, some eight [D] divided men, our trip it was pleasant as we head that westward,
[Bm] till we crossed the old peace river in those hills of [D] Mexico.
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It was [Bm] there our pleasures ended and our [D] troubles all begun, [Bm] was it like the storm that hit
us and made [D] the cattle run, [Bm] and we got all the bullet stickers [D] from the cactus that did
grow, [Bm] and the outlaws that robbed us in [D] those hills of Mexico.
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Bm] Well they sang along the steamboat to back home to you, how the bells did it ring the
west they [D] did blow, [Bm] how did it ring the west they did blow, did that God forsaken poor
in those hills of Mexico.
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_ [Bm] And now the drive is over and [D] home we are bound, it's no more this old [Bm] country that
ever I'll be found, going back friends and loved ones [D] and tell them not to go, [Bm] to that
God forsaken country in [D] those hills of Mexico. _ _ _ _
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