The Amarillo Kid chords by Craig Finn

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C#

Intro

C   G    Am  F




C                        G
I was born down in the handle
Am                       F
I was brought up by the strap
C                                        G
When the Devil starts to show up in your dreams
                                   Am    F
Then it's hard to get your dreams back
C                         G
If I've lost my sense of wonder
Am                       F
You can blame it on the banks
C                                          G
Because the scammers and the skimmers all swim around together
Am                       F
And every dealer has a fish tank
F                                                    C
The numbers never lie, but they also never tell the whole truth
F                                        G
Deanna's in the passenger side with the Buffalo blues
              C         C/B       Am          F                C
She said the guys that you'll be meeting with won't be easily impressed
    C                      C/B           Am
And if your whole thing's where you're coming from
       F                C
They'll wonder why you left

C                           G
I used to play first-person shooters
Am                         F
I'd spend days inside the games
C                             G
The speed made my head like a cockpit computer
         Am                  F
'Til the wings came off the plane
Dm
I was deep in debt and desperate
Dm
Met some hesher and his henchmen
Dm                                           C         G
Put on my only suit and I walked up to the interview
G
I applied for the position

C                             G
When the whole thing finally happened
Am                            F
They flew me out to Buffalo
New York
C                                 G
The terms were much different from what we'd first discussed
Am                       F
But I was grateful for the work
F                                                       C
Deanna was the girl who used to ride around and wait in the car
F                                                                G
The gig was pretty good, they just always need to know where you are
C       C/B        Am          F              C
They gifted me a CR-V, and a decent place to live
C        C/B        Am       F            C
A pistol and a nickname
I'm The Amarillo Kid
Dm
Dispatch and deliver
Dm
It's tough to drive in winter weather
Dm                             C
30 minutes or the next one is free
   G
Still feels like forever

F                                                     C
Deanna now I know that you were only there to watch me work
F                                                 G
I couldn't see staying on just to maintain the way that we were
C      C/B           Am               F           C
The ashtray is the bathtub, there's a stove-top kitchenette
C      C/B             Am         F          C
The wallpaper is jaundiced, but it's still a step ahead
C       C/B                Am
Didn't think they'd have the wherewithal
F                  C
To hunt me down out West
C     C/B           Am
I sold half of it in Wichita
F                       C
And I'm wrapping up the rest
C           C/B         Am
So darling sit down on the bed
F                   C
Maybe have another hit
C        C/B          Am
And listen to the 🏷Legend
F              C
Of The Amarillo Kid
C               G      Am  F
Listen to the 🏷Legend
C               G      Am  F
Listen to the 🏷Legend
C               G      Am  F
Listen to the 🏷Legend
         Am        F
Of The Amarillo Kid