Missouri Borderlands

Artist: Watchhouse (Mandolin Orange) (English)
User: Lee Menard
Duration: 130 seconds
Delay: 12 seconds
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MISSOURI BORDERLANDS


Tuning:
E A D G B E
Capo:
5th fret
[Intro]
  G      Em       C/G    G
  G      Cadd9      Em   D        G
 
[Verse]
      G                                      Em C/G             G
I am far away from home   -     With neither faaaaaaamily nor friends
  G     Cadd9             Em                     D           G
I never meant to stay so long   -    In the Missouri borderlands
 
             G                              Em C/G                     G
Three years ago I held a job   -    Saw the woooooorld from my pony's sway                      G   Cadd9            Em                       D                    G
Riding drag on a dusty mount   -    I knew I'd worked when I drew my pay
 
               G                                              Em C/G        
But times got hard, Christ times got mean    -     And I fell iiiiiiiin with 
            G
desperate men
  G     Cadd9               Em                        D            G
And one night the worst of them   -    Laid out what was an awful plan
 
[Break]
  G      Em       C/G    G
  G      Cadd9      Em   D        G
 
[Verse]
           G                                        Em C/G            G
I did not like such wicked talk    -      Of Murder aaaaaaaand bold robbery
  G          Cadd9        Em                         D                 G
I told those men I would walk   -     And they all aimed their guns at me
 
               G                                   Em C/G            G
Their prisoner I helped rob a bank     -  And much gooooold we did obtain
  G         Cadd9             Em                              D                    G
They shot a boy just for the sport      -      I stood and watched his young life wane

                G                                            Em   C/G          
Such dreadful sounds I'd never heard     -      His mother’s waaaaailing filled 
      G
the room
  G           Cadd9                  Em                     D                G
She looked at me and screamed these words     -      Devil take you to your doom
 
[Break]
  G      Em       C/G    G
  G      Cadd9      Em   D        G
 
[Verse]
             G                                         Em C/G            G
I turned to face that murderous crew    -     Shot ‘em dead.   I killed all four
  G          Cadd9   Em                      D                G
And the only thing I rue    -    I Had not thought of that before
 
             G                                         Em C/G              G
The posse  found me outside of town    -      As I was kneeeling there to pray
  G             Cadd9            Em                   D              G
From my gallows high I'm to lay down    -       In a dark Missouri grave
 
                 G                                           Em C/G            G
Please hide the rope stains around my neck    -      When my mooother sees me dead
?  G         Cadd9            Em                         D                G
Please don’t let my brothers take    -      The fateful path I chose to tread
 Cadd9      G                                        Em C/G           G
'Cause I'm far away from home    -      With neither faaaaamily nor friends
  G     Cadd9             Em                         D           G
I never meant to stay so long     -      In the Missouri borderlands
  G          Cadd9       Em                         D           G
And now I'll spend eternity     -       In the Missouri borderlands

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