Clovis New Mexico chords by Hank Williams Jr.

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
G+G

Verse 1:
      D MajorD     G+G      D MajorD
Well me and Billy, we left Bossier City
   C majorC            G+G
And decided that we'd head out west
     G+G    D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD
We'd been East and South but it didn't work out,
C majorC        D MajorD    G+G
We were getting' nowhere fast
G+G     D MajorD     G+G      D MajorD
Me with my guitar and him with his saddle,
C majorC          G+G
Tryin' to out do the rest
G+G     D MajorD       G+G       D MajorD
I sang my heart out and he rides them broncs down,
    C majorC      D MajorD    G+G
That's what me and Billy do best

Verse 2:
    G+G     D MajorD     G+G     D MajorD
We took Interstate 20 'til we ran out of money
   C majorC         G+G
At a place just past Abilene
   G+G     D MajorD       G+G     D MajorD
So I sang at a honky tonk and he broke a bad bronc
  C majorC       D MajorD      G+G
And we bought some gas and some beans
    G+G      D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD
With a whole lotta luck and an old pickup truck
  C majorC         G+G
We made it to New Mexico
  G+G      D MajorD      G+G      D MajorD
We pulled up in Clovis and I sure didn't Know
      FF    C majorC     G+G
This was as far as I ever would go

Pre-Chorus:
 G+G      D MajorD       G+G    D MajorD
I needed some strings, Billy wanted a ring,
  C majorC           G+G
The kind that the Indians make
 G+G       D MajorD       G+G     D MajorD
A augmentedA voice said "Hello Boys I got silver and turquoise
  FF       C majorC    G+G
And that's when I saw her face

Chorus:
       C majorC    C/BC/B A minorAm   D MajorD      G+G
That's when I noticed     that girl down in Clovis
        FF    C majorC       G+G
A augmentedA black haired beauty, she set fire to me
       C majorC  C/BC/B A minorAm    D MajorD        G+G
A augmentedA green eyed lady    in old jeans that were faded
      FF            C majorC            G+G  G/F G/EG/E C majorC (x2)
Oh I didn't notice what happened in Clovis - but I call her baby

Verse 3:
 G+G       D MajorD    G+G       D MajorD
I asked her with care if she'd like to share
  C majorC             G+G
Her evening with someone like I
         D MajorD       G+G      D MajorD
I said I ain't a winner, just a hard livin' singer,
   C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
She smiled and said meet me at 9
         D MajorD        G+G     D MajorD
We ate tacos and talked and then we took a walk
    C majorC         G+G
In the clean southwestern air
           D MajorD      G+G     D MajorD
Then we went back to her house, I took my guitar
  C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
And sang of my joy and despair

Verse 4:
         D MajorD      G+G        D MajorD
She served me her wine and she helped me write lines
  C majorC             G+G
To songs that I could not complete
            D MajorD      G+G    D MajorD
And her eyes seemed to say put that guitar away,
    C majorC       D MajorD     G+G
There's something that both of us need
         D MajorD       G+G      D MajorD
What a beautiful sight was her face in the light
    C majorC          G+G
of the candles there on the wall
          D MajorD        G+G      D MajorD
And we reached the heights of good love on that night
  FF     C majorC     G+G
And I hope we never will fall

Chorus:
        C majorC    C/BC/B A minorAm   D MajorD      G+G
And I'm glad I noticed     that girl down in Clovis
       FF    C majorC       G+G
Daughter of a driller, she's a born thriller
       C majorC  C/BC/B A minorAm    D MajorD     G+G
A augmentedA green eyed lady,    kinda wild kinda lazy
     FF            C majorC            G+G  G/F G/EG/E C majorC
I didn't notice what happened in Clovis - but I call her baby
G+G  G/F G/EG/E C majorC G+G
Baby