Sonoras Death Row chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Capo 3rd fret

Intro:
D MajorD B minorBm G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:
     D MajorD         B minorBm
Well the Mezcal is free in Amanda's saloon
    G+G            D MajorD
For the boys from the old Broken O
            B minorBm
Saturday nights in the town of Sonora
    G+G        D MajorD
Are the best in all Mexi co
      G+G            D/F#D/F#
They've got guitars and trumpets and sweet senoritas
  E minorEm          A augmentedA
Who won't want to let you go
   D MajorD          B minorBm
You'd never believe such a gay happy town
   G+G              D MajorD  G+G
Had a street named Sonora's Death Row

Verse:
   D MajorD        B minorBm
Well inside Amanda's we were all dancin'
   G+G        D MajorD
With all of Amanda's gals
           B minorBm
I won some silver at seven card stud
  G+G         D MajorD
So I was outdoin' my pals
    G+G           D/F#D/F#
But the whiskey and mezcal and peso cigars
E minorEm            A augmentedA
Drove me outside for some air
   D MajorD            B minorBm
Where somebody whispered "Your life or your money"
 G+G             D MajorD   G+G
I reached but my gun wasn't there

Instrumental:
D MajorD B minorBm G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:
 D MajorD           B minorBm
I woke up face down in A augmentedA manda's back alley
 G+G           D MajorD
A augmentedA ware of the fool I had been
            B minorBm
I rushed to my pony, I grabbed my Winchester
   G+G         D MajorD
And I entered Amanda's A augmentedA gain
   G+G         D/F#D/F#
Where I saw my partners twirlin' my pistols
  E minorEm         A augmentedA
And throwin' my money A augmentedA round
D MajorD        B minorBm
Blinded by rage, I pulled the trigger
  G+G            D MajorD   G+G
And one of them fell to the ground

Instrumental:
D MajorD B minorBm G+G D MajorD G+G

Verse:
    D MajorD            B minorBm
Well A augmentedA manda's grew silent like night in the desert
  G+G             D MajorD
My friends stared in pure dis belief
            B minorBm
Amanda was kneeling be side the dead cowboy
G+G           D MajorD
Plainly expressing her grief
    G+G         D/F#D/F#
And as I bowed my head, a tremble shot through me
  E minorEm           A augmentedA
My six-gun was there at my side
 D MajorD           B minorBm
I felt in my pockets and there was my money
 G+G           D MajorD   G+G
I fell to my knees and I cried

Verse:
   D MajorD            B minorBm
For a nightmare of mezcal was all that it was
G+G            D MajorD
No one had robbed me at all
             B minorBm
I wish I was dreamin' the sound of the gallows
    G+G            D MajorD
They're testin' just outside the walls
    G+G            D/F#D/F#
And the mezcal's still free in A augmentedA manda's saloon
    E minorEm            A augmentedA
For the boys from the old Broken O
  D MajorD          B minorBm
And I'd give a ransom to drink there today
    G+G           D MajorD  G+G
And be free of Sonora's Death Row
             B minorBm
Yeah I'd give a ransom to drink there today
    G+G           D MajorD  G+G
And be free of Sonora's Death Row