Smugglers Blues chords by Glenn Frey

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Intro:

 C C7 C F C



🎸 Verse 1:
C
There's trouble on the street tonight
C
I can feel it in my bones.
C
I had a premonition that
C
He should not go alone.
C

I knew the gun was loaded
C
But I didn't think he'd kill.
C
Everything exploded
C
And the blood began to spill.


🎸 Verse 2:
F
So, baby, here's your ticket
F
Put the suitcase in your hand.
F
Here's a little money now
F
Do it just the way we planned.
       C
You be cool for twenty hours
C
And I'll pay you twenty grand.



    G
I'm sorry it went down like this
G
Someone had to lose.
         F
It's the nature of the business
C
It's the smuggler's blues.
C
Smuggler's blues


🎸 Verse 3:
C
The sailors and the pilots
C
The soldiers and the law.
C
The payoffs and the ripoffs
C
And the things nobody saw.
C
No matter if it's heroin
C
Cocaine or hash.
C
You've got to carry weapons
C
'Cause you always carry cash


🎸 Verse 4:
        F
There's lots of shady characters
F
Lots of dirty deals.
F
Every name's an alias
F
In case somebody squeals.
         C
It's the lure of easy money
C
It's gotta very strong appeal.



G
Perhaps you'd understand it better
G
Standing in my shoes.
         F
It's the ultimate enticement
C
It's the smuggler's blues.
C
Smuggler's blues



🎸 Verse 5:
C
See it in the headlines
C
You hear it every day.
C
They say they're gonna stop it
C
But it doesn't go away.
C
They move it through Miami
C
Sell it in L.A.
C
They hide it up in Telluride
C
I mean it's here to stay.


🎸 Verse 6:
     F
It's propping up the governments
F
Of Columbia and Peru.
F
You ask any DEA man
F
He'll say there's nothing we can do.
         C
From the office of the President
C
Right down to me and you.
C
Me and you



       G
It's a losing proposition
G
But one you can't refuse.
         F
It's the politics of contraband
C
It's the smuggler's blues.
C
Smuggler's blues.