Life Of An Outlaw chords by The Great Divide

• Capo on 5th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Chords:
G     320033
G/F#  2x0033


Intro:
|D  |D  |D  |D  |
|D  |D  |A  |G  G/F#  D  |G  G/F#  D  |

Verse:
D

  Held up in a shotgun shack, not goin' nowhere soon
A                          G     G/F#  D      G  G/F#  D
  Sheriff and his fifty men under a July moon
D
  Where you gonna run to now, you got nowhere to go
A                                        G      G/F#     D    G  G/F#  D
  Sheriff's got ya pinned way down, he's comin' for your soul
D
  It won't be much longer now 'cause the stars are fillin' the sky
            A                                     G       G/F#    D    G  G/F#  D
We're gonna   kick open the ol' front door, we'll let the bullets fly

Chorus:
A                   G        A                  G
  Well, I may be goin' down,   and I may be headed out
A                            G                                D
  You got my back against a wall, looks like a final curtain call

Interlude:
|D  |D  |D  |A  |G  G/F#  D   |G  G/F#  D   |

Verse 2:
D
  Flames stab the darkness, lightin' up the sky
A                                         G     G/F#   D
  Lead flyin' through the midnight air as men begin to die
D
  Life falls around me as a gun bucks in my hand
    A                            G      G/F#      D    G  G/F#  D
If life is like a desert, hell's just a grain of sand
D
  Horse race with the hoof beat along the riverside
    A                                  G         G/F#    D     G  G/F#  D
A cloud of dust risin' up behind as we cross the great divide

Chorus:
A                   G        A                  G
  Well, I may be goin' down,   and I may be headed out
A                            G                                D
  You got my back against a wall, looks like a final curtain call

Interlude:
|D  |A  |G  |D  |

Bridge:
D
  Well, that's the life of an outlaw, livin' by the gun
A                                  G       G/F#  D
  There's a little bit of outlaw inside of everyone

Interude:
|D  |D  |A  |G  |D  |

Chorus:
A                   G        A                  G
  Well, I may be goin' down,   and I may be headed out
A                            G                                D
  You got my back against a wall, looks like a final curtain call