Chords for Mandolin Orange - Missouri Borderland // RTT

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I'm _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ far away from home [Am] with neither [F] _ _ family [C] nor friends.
I never met, [Am] stay so long in [G] the Missouri [C] _
borderland.
Three years ago, I held a job.
_ [Am] Saw the _ [F] _ world from my [C] pony's sway.
_ [F] Riding dry _ [Am] on a dusty mile.
_ I knew I'd [G] worked when I [C] drew my pay.
The times got hard.
Christ's times got mean.
[Am] And I fell [F] _ _
in with [C] despotism.
_ [F] And one night, [Am] the worst of them _ laid out [G] what was [C] an awful plan. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ I did not like such wicked talk.
_ [Am] Murder _ [F] _ _
and [C] bold robbery.
I told those [Am] men I would walk.
And they [G] all aimed _ their [C] guns at me.
They're prisoner, I held the robbing.
_ _ [Am] And much [F] gold _ we [C] did obtain.
They shot [F] a bull _ [Am] just for the sport.
I [G] stood and watched as young [C] life waned.
Such dreadful sounds I'd never heard.
His [Am] mother's [F] _ _
[C] wailing filled the room.
She looked [F] at me and [Am] screamed these words.
[G] The devil's aiki to [C] your doom. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
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_ [C] _ I turned to face that murderous crew.
_ [Am] Shot them dead.
[F] _
I [C] killed all four.
_ [G] And the only [Am] thing I rue, I had [G] not thought _ that [C] before.
_ A posse found me outside town.
As [Am] I wasn't _ [F] even _ [C] there to pray.
Where my [F] gallows hide, time [Am] to lay down.
_ [G] In the dark _ [C] Missouri gray.
Please hide the rope stained around my neck.
_ [Am] When my [F] _ _
[Dm] mother [C] sees me dead, [F] please don't let [Am] my brothers take.
_ [G] Faithful path I [C] chose to tread.
Because I'm far _ away from home.
With [Am] neither _ [F] _
_ [C] family, no friends.
I never meant to [Am] stay so long [G] in the Missouri _ [C] borderland.
_ Now I'll spend _ [Am] eternity _ in [G] the _ Missouri _ _ [C] borderland. _ _
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