Chords for Michael Martin Murphey - Rhymes of the Renegade

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_ _ _ [G] If you listen [D] close when the [G] hot [C] wind blows down the dust devil street of old Tombstone
You [G] might hear an old rhyme [D] ringing [G] of the legend who [Bm] walked [G] in their long [C] black coats
[Em] And their high top [C] boots and their 45 coats [G] writing to this song [D] I'm singing
[Em] That the [D] ballad [C] mongers made [G] to the _ _ [D]
rhymes of the [G] _ _ [D] _ [Em] renegade
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_ _ _ [G] Way up in [Bm] Dakota [Em] by the [C] Deadwood moon while Bill's ghost haunts number 10 saloon
[G] Here a coward came [D] to get him [G] Bill held a dead man's [D] hand
[Em] The vases [C] and aches [Em] with his back [C] to the [Em] door he tempted [C] fate
[G] Poor Bill never knew [D]
what hit him
_ [Em] Gambling [D] his [C] life away _ [D] into the rhymes _ of the [G] _ [D] renegade
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_ _ [D] And in all of the towns [G] too tough [D] to die [G] they're dancing up on Boot Hill tonight
[D] Laughing at the [Bm] movies [D] Hollywood [C] made dancing [D] to the [G] rhymes of the renegade
[D] And Billy the Kid's [G] laughing right [D] out loud at [G] how they turned him into a hero somehow
[D] Who cast the first stone [G] at his well [D]-known grave [C] while chanting [D] these rhymes [G] of the renegade
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_ _ [G] Way out in [D] California [Em] by a long [C] dark bend [Em] and a masked [C] duster [Em] blowing in [C] the wind
[G] Black Bart still stands [D] there waiting _ [G] and out [D] in El Paso [Em] the [C] thundercloud roars
[Em] Like John Wesley hards his guns [C] long ago [G] and the West still [D] loves to hate him
[Em] For his [D] legend will [C] not fade from [D] the _ rhymes of the [G] renegade
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_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [G] And all [D] of the robbers [Em] who rode [C] through hell [Em] and danced [C] on the rope [Em] when the [C] gallows fell
[G] Their demons are still [D] with us [G] and the [D] vigilantes do [Em] more evil [C] than good
[Em] When they [C] masquerade around [Em] like Robin [C] Hood [G] and they ride at [D] night to get us [E] from the owl [D]-hooped trail [C] to shame _ _ _
_ Come [D] the _ _ rhymes of the _ [G] _ _ [D] _ [G] renegade
_ _ [D] And could it [C] be true that [Bm] some have come [D] out lost [G] holding on to the last two of the long lost cause
[D] Digging [C] their grave [Bm] with a silver [D] clay [C] singing hymns [D] and rhymes [G] to the _ renegade
[D] Some call it a mystery when Waco burns [G] from history they refuse to learn
[D] They turn their backs till the movie deal's made [C] deaf [D] to the rhymes [G] of the _ renegade
[D] They lay and [G] burn down [D] up to heaven and day [G] operating our laws on the churches and banks
[D] They enforce [G] the laws [D] that were tailor made [C] they won't hear [D] the [G] rhymes of the renegade
[D] They ignore the dark side [G] of [D] humanity [G] and live in the illusion that we're all free
[D] They'll never know how [Bm] many could be [D] saved [C] from the lessons and the [D] rhymes of the [G] _ renegade
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