Spanish Johnny

Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: 2nd traste As recorded by Emmylou Harris with Waylon Jennings (From the 1981 Album EVANGELINE) Capo 2nd fret If you don't want to use a capo transpose +2 steps. [Intro] C [Verse 1] C D Those other years, the dusty years, we drove the big herds through C D I tried to forget the miles we rode and Spanish Johnny too C D He'd sit beside a water ditch when all his herd was in C G D And he'd never harm a child, but sing to his mandolin [Verse 2] C D The old talk, the old ways, and the dealing of our game C D But Spanish Johnny never spoke, but sang a song of Spain C D And his talk with men was vicious talk when he was drunk on gin C G D Ah, but those were golden things he said to his mandolin [Guitar & Mandolin Solos] C D C G A C D C G A [Verse 3] C D Well, we had to stand, we tried to judge, we had to stop him then C D For the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men C D He died a hard death long ago before the roads come in C G D And the night before he swung, he sung to his mandolin [Verse 4] C D Well, we carried him out in the morning sun, a man that done no good C D And we lowered him down in the cold clay, stuck in a cross of wood C D And a letter we wrote to his kinfolk to tell them where he'd been C G D C And we shipped it out to Mexico along with his mandolin [Outro] C D C G A C D C G D