Chords for Dave Alvin - Murrieta's Head

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Come [Dm] on, saddle up boys, cause [G] the governor said _ he'll [D] pay three thousand dollars for Murrieta's head. _
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_ _ _ _ I hear Joaquin Murrieta steals horses and gold, [Dm] killed the sheriff in Mariposa, [Cm] but
so I'm [D] told. _ _ _
_ _ [C] He's [D] the devil's bloody bastard, wicked and no good, but all Mexicans swear that [G] he's Robin Hood. _ _ _ _ _
Well with my wife and my sons, I work as hard as I [Am] can, [D] on thirteen acres [G] of California [D] land.
_ _ _ _ But the rains never came, and I got debts I can't pay, now the banks gonna steal my farm away. _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Come on, saddle up boys, [C] cause the governor [G] said _ _ _ _ he'll [D] pay three thousand dollars for [G] _ [D] Murrieta's head. _ _ _ _
He don't want him alive, [G] he wants [C] him [G] dead.
_ _ _ He'll [D] pay three thousand dollars for [G] _ [Dm] Murrieta's head.
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_ _ _ _ _ hear Joaquin Murrieta rides to [Dm] avenge the murder of his wife [G] by a mob of [A] drunk men. _
[D] _ _ _ But I don't [A] give a damn if it's a lie or if it's true, [Dm] cause for his family, ain't [G] much
a man [A] won't do.
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I see the fever came around and my youngest boy took ill, and I didn't have money to [G] pay
no [D] doctor's bills. _ _ _ _ _
So I buried his body, meet that oak on the hill, but if I had money, I [C] swear he'd be [D] alive [D] still.
_ _ _ Come on, saddle up boys, cause the governor [C] said _ _
[G] _ _ he'll [D] pay three thousand dollars for [G] _ [D] Murrieta's head. _ _ _ _
He don't want him alive, [F] he wants [C] him dead.
[A] _ _ _ He'll pay three thousand dollars for _ [D] Murrieta's head.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ Well the bible says, you reap what you sow.
[A] Well that could be true, but I really [Dm] don't know. _ _
_ _ [D] _ Well if it is, Murrieta will be [F] damned to hell, [D] and when I kill him, [A] I'll be [Dm] damned as well. _ _
_ Come on, saddle up boys, [D] cause the governor said _ [A] he'll _ pay three thousand dollars [C] for [D] Murrieta's head.
_ _ _ _ He don't want him alive, [F] he wants [C] him dead. _
_ _ _ [D] He'll pay three thousand dollars for [A] Murrieta's head.
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