The Border chords by Willie Nelson

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: Am

🎸 Intro:

Am    N.C.


🎸 Verse 1:
                  Am
I work on the border
Am
I see what I see
                 G
I work on the border
                    Am
And it’s working on me

🎸 Verse 2:
Am
I lie awake at night
Am
Knowing what I know
                      G
There’s a price on my head
                     Am
Of every border patrol


🎸 Verse 3:
Am
Where the smugglers do business
Am
That’s where I make a stand
                  G
I know this old desert
                       Am
Like the back of my hand


🎸 Verse 4:
Am
I see greed in the bushes
Am
I see snakes in the dark
                          G
Some are friends of my brothers
                            Am
Can’t you hear them dogs bark


🎸 Chorus:
               F
I come home to Maria
                  C
At the end of the day
                     F
In thе shape of a shadow
                  G
Holding demons at bay
                          Am
‘It’s just a border’ thеy say


🎸 Verse 5:
Am
It was Mexican soldiers
Am
Out of a black Humvee
                              G
With their guns to their shoulders
                         Am
Aimed at my partner and me


🎸 Verse 6:
Am
As they drove away laughing
Am
But the message was clear
                      G
We don’t care about nothing
                      Am
But the money down here


🎸 Chorus:
               F
I come home to Maria
                 C
In a bulletproof vest
                             F
With the weight of the whole wide world
                   G
Barring down on my chest
                     Am
It’s just a border I guess


🎸 Bridge:
         Em             Am
From the shacks and the shantys
Em                  Am
Come the hungry and poor
Em                      Am
Some to drown at the crosses
F
Some to suffer no more



🎸 Verse 7:
                           Am
Guess you heard about Campos
Am
and Ramien
             G
Both of them friends of mine
          Am
Both good men


🎸 Verse 8:
Am
They did one thing right
Am
And look what they got
           G
Federal prison
                            Am
Where they’re both going to rot


🎸 Chorus:
               F
I come home to Maria
                   G
Where else would I go
                   F
Cross the River to die by myself
                G
Down In old Mexico
                          Am
It’s just the border y’know


🎸 Outro:
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