Santa Fe Trail chords by Peter Bellamy

• Capo on 1st
• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
        B                E         B
Tell me friend, have you sighted a schooner
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail?
       B            E         B
And it may got here Monday or sooner,
      B         F#           B
Had a water keg tied to the tail.
            E                  B
There was a Pa and a Ma on the mule-seat,
    E                       B      F#
But somewheres along on the way
      B          E        B
Was a tow-headed gal on a pinto
       B            F#         B
Just a-jangling for old Santa Fe,
   E      B
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
       B            F#         B
Just a-jangling for old Santa Fe.

🎸 Verse 2:
      B              E        B
But I seen them come down the arroyo
      B               F#        B
As we crossed on them Arkansas sand,
        B           E        B
She had smiles like acres of sunflowers,
       B            F#            B
Held a quirt in her little brown hand.
        E                    B
And she mounted her pinto so airy
        E                         B     F#
And she rode like she carried the mail,
        B             E           B
And her eyes near set fire to the prairie
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail,
   E      B
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail.

🎸 Verse 3:
        B           E          B
Well, I once knew a gal on the border
        B          F#       B
Who I’d ride to El Paso to sight;
       B              E             B
I have danced in some high-steppin’ order,
         B                F#              B
And I’ve sometimes kissed some girls goodnight;
    E                             B
But Lord, they’re all ruffles and beading
         E                      B      F#
And they drink fancy tea by the pail,
        B            E           B
I’m not used to that kind of stampeding
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail,
   E      B
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail.

🎸 Verse 4:
        B              E           B
Well, I don’t know her name on the prairie,
            B           F#            B
When you're hunting one girl it’s so wide,
         B            E         B
And it’s shorter from hell to hilary
        B          F#        B
Than it is on that Santa Fe ride.
         E                            B
But I’ll try and reach Plummers by sundown
        E                       B       F#
Where a camp can be made in the swale,
          B         E            B
Then I’ll meet that gal with her pinto
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail,
    E     B
Yo-ho! Yo-ho!
     B           F#        B
Alongside of the Santa Fe Trail.