Tall Handsome Stranger Chords by Marty Robbins

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A tall [Gm] handsome stranger [Fm] rode into [Ab] town, with fire in his eyes, [G] burning red [Cm] as sundown.
His boots were all dusty, his [Ab] coat open wide, [Fm] six ways of dying [G] hung low on [Cm] his thigh. _ _
_ _ _ He went in the town hall [Fm] asking for me, they told him that I [Ab] was still town [Cm] deputy.
I sent him to prison [Fm] to pay for [Ab] his crime, [F] he killed [Cm] a guard on [G] the Santa [Cm] Fe line. _ _ _ _
He spread word around town that my time had come, [Fm] my notch was [G] already carved on his [Cm] gun.
He's laughing and bragging [Fm] and having [Cm] his fun, it's all a show [G] for he knows I won't [Cm] run. _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ That night in silence [Bb] the town was asleep, [Ab] I sat by my window [A] and looked [Ebm] down the street.
[D] I wished in my heart that he'd [Cm] just ride away, [G] I hated to face him [Cm] at sunup that day. _ _ _ _ _
I met him at sunup, [Fm] the crowd [Ab] gathered round, [Fm] waiting and [G] watching for one to go [Cm] down.
He grabbed for his six [Fm] gun, trying his best, he cursed as [C] my [G] bullet went deep in [Cm] his chest. _
_ _ _ He stood there a moment and looked all around, [G] [Cm] slowly and lifeless he [G] fell to the [Cm] ground.
This stranger's my brother, [Fm]
born an outlaw, he must have forgotten I [G] taught him to [Cm] draw. _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] The [Fm] whole town was waiting and I was alone, [Ab] a glove that I spill [Eb] with just like my own.
[Bb] When she hears this [Cm] story how mother will cry, brother gets brother and one head did I. _
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