Crosses Of San Carlos chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Intro:
C majorC  G+G

Verse:
G+G
Two Apache kids in a stolen car
G+G
Navigating by a falling star
  FF C majorC
Yeah
        G+G
Where are they going?

Verse:
G+G
Towards Jerusalem Mountain, red amphetamine sunrise
G+G
Mesquite, saguaro, Great Mystical Agave
     FF   C majorC
Tell 'em please
        G+G
Where are they going?

Verse:
G+G
Past the little white crosses, the highway signs
G+G
Stay away from the double yellow lines
   FF     C majorC
Jimmy Yelloweyes
            G+G
Take care where you're going

Verse:
G+G
Ain't no alcohol allowed on the Reservation
G+G
They're headed out in search of strong libation
   FF C majorC
Hoyah
            G+G
They know where they're going

Chorus:
       D MajorD
Out where the crosses of San Carlos
C majorC
Shine 'neath a desert moon
     D MajorD
Near the canyons where Geronimo rode
    C majorC
And the ocotillo bloom
         G+G      FF
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hoyah
        G+G
Where's it all going

Verse:
G+G
Old Mexican Jaguar crossed over last night
G+G
Near the Agua Priatt border town lights
      FF  C majorC
Yeah, yeah, yeah
          G+G
Where's the old man going?

Verse:
G+G
He's on the track of a deer or a Javelina hog
G+G
He ain't afraid of your hunting dog
      FF  C majorC
No, no, no, no
          G+G
He knows where he's going

Verse:
G+G
And he disdains your greed, your ignorance
G+G
Your razor-wire, your chain-link fence
      FF   C majorC
Yeah, yeah, yeah
          G+G
He knows where he's going

Chorus:
       D MajorD
Out where the crosses of San Carlos
   C majorC
They shine neath the desert moon
     D MajorD
Near the canyons where Cochise laid it down
    C majorC
And the old agave bloom
         G+G     FF
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Ha
        G+G
Where's it all going
  FF C majorC
Hey eeeee
        G+G
Where's it all going

Bridge:
     E minorEm           B minorBm
Yeah, and one night when the moon is down
   C majorC        G+G
We'll come back on you stronger
  E minorEm         B minorBm
Out on these long purged highways
     C majorC      D7D7
We'll be crucified no longer

Verse:
   G+G
We've seen it come, we'll watch it go
G+G
The beer is gone, the gasoline's low
      FF     C majorC
Said Jimmy Yelloweyes
          G+G
"Hell, where are we going?"

Verse:
 G+G
"Look up ahead in our high beam lights
G+G
Some kind of leopard coming at us through the night
   FF  C majorC
Ho, yeeah
          G+G
Where's the old one going?"

Verse:
G+G
Maybe he's taking backing back his ancient hunting grounds
G+G
Blood on the streets of the cowboy towns
      FF   C majorC
Yeah, yeah, yeah
          G+G
He knows where he's going

Verse:
G+G
Then the scream of the tires, the curse and the swerve
G+G
The final war cry on the final curve
      FF  C majorC
Yeah, yeah, yay
            G+G
Where in Hell were they going?

Chorus:
    D MajorD
And the crosses of San Carlos
   C majorC
Still shine 'neath a desert moon
     D MajorD
Near the canyons where Geronimo rode
    C majorC
And the ocotillo bloom
         G+G      FF
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hoyah
        G+G
Where's it all going
  FF C majorC
Hey eeeee
      G+G
Where is it going
  FF C majorC
Hey eeee
   G+G
Hoya
 FF C majorC G+G
Heyeeeeee