Desperado

Intro: 0:00
G G7 | C Cm | G Em | A D!!

Verse 1: 0:19
      G
Desperado,
G7               C            Cm
  Why don't you come to your senses?
         G           Em7
You been out ridin' fences
     A7      D7
For so long now.
0:36
              G
Oh, you're a hard one,
G7                 C
  But I know that you got
            | Cm
Your reasons,
        G         B7    Em7
These things that are pleasin' you
     A7       D7    | G D7
Can hurt you somehow.

Chorus 1: 0:54
            Em               Bm7
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy,
        C                     G D
She'll beat you if she's able,
              Em7      Em
You know the queen of hearts
   C                 G  D
Is always your best bet.
1:10
        Em7              Bm7
Now it seems to me some fine things
           C              G
Have been laid upon your table,
        Em            A7
But you only want the ones
                Am7
That you can't get.

Verse 2: 1:24
 D7   G
Desperado,
Dm7       C
  Oh, you ain't gettin'
           G Am7
No younger,
      G        D    Em7
Your pain and your hunger,
          A7         D7
They're drivin' you home.
1:42
      G            Dm7
And freedom, oh, freedom,
                   C
Well, that's just some
               G Am7
People talkin',
       G    B7  Em7
Your prison is walkin' through
      A7       D7   | G D7
This world all alone.

Chorus 2: 1:59
            Em
Don't your feet get cold
        Bm7
In the winter time?
      C
The sky won't snow
         G          Bm7
And the sun won't shine,
2:07
      Em7              C
It's hard to tell the night time
          G  D
From the day.
2:15
        Em7             Bm7
You're losin' all your highs and lows,
          C
Ain't it funny
         G             Am7 | D
How the feelin' goes away?

Verse 3: 2:29
 D7   G
Desperado,
Dm7    Dm        C            Cm
  Why don't you come to your senses,
      G         B7   Em
Come down from your fences,
A7              D7
  Open the gate.
2:46
           G
It may be rainin',
Dm7     Dm       C                Cm
  But there's a rainbow above you.
2:54
            G       B7   Em
You better let somebody love you,
  C       G    Am
(Let somebody love you.)
3:01
            G       B7   Em!!
You better let somebody love you
   D7               G ->
Before it's too... late.

Coda: 3:13
G G7 | C Cm!! | G!!!