Desperado chords by Lucy Wainwright Roche And Suzzy Roche

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse:
      G   G7              C            Cm
Desperado,  why don't you come to your senses
            G          G6         A7      D7
You've been out riding fences for so long now
             G        G7             C            Cm
Oh, you're a hard one,   I know that you got your reasons
      G               Em               A7       D7  G  D
These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow

Verse:
          Em                Bm
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
       C                 G
She'll beat you if she's able
             Em                 C                G     D
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
       Em               Bm                    C              G
Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table
        Em              A7           Am7 D
But you only want the ones you can't get

Verse:
     G  G7              C          Cm
Desperado, oh you ain't getting no younger
     G               G6            A7          D7
Your pain and your hunger, they're driving you home
    G           G7                         C             Cm
And freedom, oh freedom, well, that's just some people talking
     G         G6                   A7         G   D
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Verse:
           Em                   Bm
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time
    C                   G
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
     Em               C                   G   D
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
       Em              Bm
You're losing all your highs and lows
         C             G            Am7  D7
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away

Verse:
     G   G7              C            Cm
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
     G              Em      A7        D7
Come down from your fences, open the gate
          G      G7               C        Cm
It may be raining,  but there's a rainbow above you
            G           Em       C Em Cm
You better let somebody love you
           G       B7   Em
You better let somebody love you
  Am7       D7  G   Cm   G
Before it's too late