Ride Me Down Easy
Recorded by Bobby Bare, April, 1973
Album: The Essential Bobby Bare RCA 07863-67405-2
(also recorded by Johnny Rodriguez, titled as "Easy Come, Easy Go")
Written by Billy Joe Shaver
Key of G
Verse 1:
G This old highway she's a hotter C than nine kinds of hell
The D7 rides they is scarce as the G rain.
When you're down to your last shuck C with nothing to sell
And D7 too far away from G the train.
Verse 2:
G Been a good month of Sunday's and a C guitar ago
I D7 had a tall drink of yesterday's G wine.
Left a long string of friends, some C sheets in the wind
And D7 some satisfied women G behind.
Chorus:
G So won't you ride me down easy Lord, C ride me on down
Leave D7 word in the dust where I G lay.
Say I'm easy come, C easy go
And D7 easy to love when G I stay.
Verse 3:
G I've put snow on the mountain, raised C hell on the hill
Locked D7 horns with the devil him G self.
Been a rodeo bum, a C son of a gun
And a D7 hobo with stars in his G crown.
Repeat Chorus, then chorus to fade out