The Illegal Line chords by Will Hoge

Chords with lyrics

Will Hoge - The Illegal Line

Standard Tune - No Capo

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The [SOLO] section seems to start in A augmentedA and work its way down the fret board


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Well I must have walked for fourteen days
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All that I could carry and I made my way
  E minorEm           G+G   D MajorD
To the new holy land not a grand parade
  E minorEm             G+G  E minorEm
Snuck across the border to the U.S.A.

 E minorEm              G+G    E minorEm
Didn't take too long for me to find some work
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Just stood there waitin round in the Texas dirt
  E minorEm              G+G    D MajorD
And now I lay concrete the way I did back home
  E minorEm        G+G    E minorEm
From 6 am until the light is gone

  E minorEm                G+G   E minorEm
Then it's back to the hotel drink a case of beer
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One for every person that's livin' here
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Four dollars an hour but nobody moans
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Cause it's three fifty more than we can get back home

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Then I send the money back down to my sweet wife
  E minorEm            G+G     E minorEm
So she can tell my children 'bout a better life
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Papa's tryin hard just to make it fine
  E minorEm           G+G   E minorEm
Fifty miles north of that illegal line


[SOLO]

 E minorEm              G+G   E minorEm
Late one night they came in through the door
 E minorEm              G+G    E minorEm
With guns and lights screamin' get on the floor
  E minorEm               G+G    D MajorD
They cuffed us up tight and hauled us all away
  E minorEm               G+G     E minorEm
Couldn't hardly understand a single word they'd say

  E minorEm         G+G    E minorEm
Early next mornin' judge drug us in
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He stared us all down just like guilty men
  E minorEm              G+G   D MajorD
He said any of you boys got a thing to say?
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I asked him what would he do if he was in my place

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He said there's rules boy and this just aint the way
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And I said sometimes a starvin' family just can't wait
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But he slammed down his gavel now I'm doin time
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Fifty miles north of that illegal line
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Fifty miles north of that illegal line-eeeeee