Ill Never Leave These Old Horses
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
D A D
Good bye old paint I’m leaving Cheyenne
[Verse 1]
D A
It’s ten below zero he lives forty miles outside of town
D
On a ranch with three ol' longhorns, about to give up the ghost and lay down
A
And he’s got five head of horses, not one of them younger than 10
D
He says, “If I sold off and left ‘em, I wouldn’t be much of a man”
[Verse 2]
D A
Every morning past coffee he walks up that long gravel road
D
To a stone house where his guitar sits, waiting for stories to get told
A
And he stares out the window at a wild winter running her courses
He says: ”I’ll bet it’s warm down in Santa Fe,
D
But I’ll never leave these old horses”
[Chorus]
G C G
You know love comes and goes, it rocks and it rolls,
D
And it spins you around and around
G C G
When you reach the sad end of love, sometimes you gotta jump off
E A
And build new wings on the way down
G F#m G
After 84 years, kid, it’s too late to second-guess your choices
D A D
That’s the way it played out, me, I won’t leave these old horses
C G D D C G D D
[Verse 3]
D A
Now the Santa Fe sundown sheds a warm, red, mystical light
D
But he’s froze to the bone in Alberta, but he won’t quit the fight
A
and One old rugged-legged hawk circles lower and the old man hears voices
D
He says, “I’m crazy as hell, boys, but I’ll never leave these old horses”
[Chorus]
G C G
You know love comes and goes and it rocks and it rolls you
D
And it spins you around and around
G C G
When you reach the sad end of love, sometimes you jump off
E A
And build new wings on the way down
G F#m G
and after 84 years, kid, it’s too late to second-guess your choices
D A Bm E
Don’t slam the door when you leave, Kid, me I’ll stay here with these horses
D A D
Close the gate down on the main road and leave me here with these horses
D A D
Good bye old paint I’m leaving Cheyenne
How to play Ill Never Leave These Old Horses
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