Goodnight Juarez chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

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

Intro:
G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G C majorC G+G

Verse:
          C majorC       G+G
Juarez, I couldn't sleep tonight
          D MajorD
Juarez, you made me weep tonight
      G+G           C majorC
Across the Rio Grande, I saw your poverty lights
  G+G     D MajorD    G+G   C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Goodnight, Juarez, goodnight

Verse:
         C majorC        G+G
Juarez, I used to paint the town
               D MajorD
Now you've gone and turned it upside down
    G+G        C majorC
Into a dark and bloody battleground
  G+G     D MajorD    G+G   C majorC
Goodnight, Juarez, goodnight

Verse:
        G+G       D MajorD
Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows
             G+G
Just caught the last bus out
  C majorC              G+G
She said, "Seven sorrows used to fit the bill
    A minorAm    E minorEm    D MajorD   C majorC
But I'd need ten thousand now"

Verse:
C majorC
The mariachi horns are silent
    B minorBm            A minorAm
The guitars don't make a sound

The children have all disappeared
      D MajorD          G+G
Or they're hiding underground

Verse:
           C majorC     G+G
The tourist market's empty now
         D MajorD
You wouldn't recognize this town
     G+G       C majorC
Why, they even tore the bull ring down
  G+G     D MajorD    G+G
Goodnight, Juarez, goodnight

Instrumental:
G+G  C majorC  G+G  D MajorD  G+G  C majorC  G+G D MajorD G+G  C majorC

Verse:
         G+G
Vuela, vuela, palomita
  D MajorD            G+G   C majorC
You ragged and torn Dove of Peace
        G+G
Fly across this burning desert
     A minorAm   E minorEm  D MajorD   C majorC
Where the bodies lie beneath

Verse:

Bring me back one faded rose
 B minorBm          A minorAm
A augmentedA sign of love and hope

And drop it down on this broken city
     D MajorD           G+G
Before it all goes up in smoke

Verse:
        C majorC      G+G
Juarez, I had a dream today
              D MajorD
The children danced as the guitars played
      G+G        C majorC
And all the violence, up and slipped away
  G+G     D MajorD    G+G
Goodnight, Juarez, goodnight
              C majorC
The children danced as the guitars played
  G+G     D MajorD    G+G   C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Goodnight, Juarez, goodnight