Chords for Burl Ives - One Hour Ahead Of The Posse - 78 rpm - Brunswick 04934

_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] There he goes right there!
Don't let him get away, man!
Come on in!
[C#] _ _
_ _ One _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
hour ahead of the party,
the bloodhounds are hot on the trail. _
[Bm] Then I shot down the [E] sweetheart.
This [C#m] morning I [A] broke out of jail.
My pimpo is tired and hungry.
And I'm feeling really gone.
[E] We started ahead of the party,
and we gotta keep going [A] on.
[C#m] The sheriff has sworn he will [F#m] be riding with twenty [C#m] and five.
I ain't a fear to that party,
[Bm] cause they'll never get [E] me alive.
[A] Ah, ah, ah!
One hour ahead of the party,
[F#m] they'll turn into [A] left or to right.
[E] We must win the race to the river,
or there'll be [A] a hanging tonight.
[E] We're gonna hang [A] him tonight!
One hour ahead of the party,
no time for remorse or regret.
[E] [F#] Somehow her blue eyes still haunt me.
Her laughter [A] is taunting me yet.
It started the night that I met her.
She kissed me and vowed she would care.
[E] I traded the gold in my pocket
for a pond of gold [A] in her hair.
[C#m] She _ _ _
[F#m] lied to [C#m] me, _ she lied to me, _
_ [Bm] _ still in her [A] grave.
One hour ahead of the party, _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ [B] _ _ [G#] and [A] we'll see that pussy is last.
_ _ _ _ [F#m] We ain't got a second [A] to spare.
We'll move _ closer [Bm] to _ _
[E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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[Am] _ [G] the water.
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