Tonight We Ride chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

Artist: Tom Russell
Song: Tonight We Ride
Album: Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs
Key: C majorC Major

Intro:
e|--12--10--13----|--3--8--3--0--*|
BB|--13—-12--15----|--5--10-5--1--*|
G+G|----------------|--------------*|
D MajorD|----------------|--------------*|
A augmentedA|----------------|--------------*|
E MajorE|----------------|--------------*|

Verse:
             C majorC       FF        C majorC
Pancho Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen
                   G+G
The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
     A minorAm              FF
He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream
     C majorC                G+G
Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings

Chorus:
      A minorAm        E minorEm
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
   FF        C majorC              G+G
We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
     A minorAm              FF
Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
      C majorC  FF      C majorC
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

Verse:
C majorC                      FF         C majorC
We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits
               G+G
When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit
    A minorAm              FF
It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
    C majorC             G+G
To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit

Chorus:
      A minorAm         E minorEm
Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
   FF       C majorC              G+G
We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair
      A minorAm            FF
Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
      C majorC  FF      C majorC
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

Interlude:
A minorAm E minorEm FF C majorC G+G
A minorAm FF C majorC FF C majorC

Verse:
C majorC                     FF         C majorC
When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car
                     G+G
Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
     A minorAm                FF
You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars
   C majorC                G+G
I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars

Chorus:
      A minorAm        E minorEm
Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
   FF       C majorC               G+G
We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold
     A minorAm                    FF
And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
      C majorC  FF      C majorC
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

Chorus:
      A minorAm         E minorEm
Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
      FF         C majorC                G+G
Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest
    A minorAm                  FF
If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
      C majorC  FF      C majorC
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

Outro:
A minorAm E minorEm FF C majorC G+G
A minorAm FF
      C majorC  FF      C majorC   FF C majorC