Out In New Mexico chords by Johnny Horton

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🎸 Verse 1:
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It was in the town of Griffin in the year of '83

It was there an old cow-puncher stepped up and said to me
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How do you do young fellow and how would you like to go
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And spend a pleasant summer out in New Mexico



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I'll furnish you good wages your transportation too

If you will but go with me one summer season's through
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But if you grow homesick and back to Griffin go
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I'll furnish you no horses from the hills of Mexico

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Well we left the town of Griffin in the merry month of May

When everything seemed lovely and everything seemed gay
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With saddles on our horses marching onward we did go
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Until we reached Old Boggy out in New Mexico

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It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles they began

Oh the first hailstorm came on us oh how those cattle ran
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Through all kinds of thorns and thistles the cowboys had to go
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While the Indians watched upon us out in New Mexico

🎸 Verse 5:
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And when the drive was over the rider would not pay

To all you good-lookin' people this much I have to say
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Go back to your friends and loved ones tell others not to go
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To the God-forsaken country they call New Mexico