Crosses Of San Carlos chords by Tom Russell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C    G

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

Verse:
G

Towards Jerusalem Mountain, red amphetamine sunrise
G
Mesquite, saguaro, Great Mystical Agave
         F      C
Tell 'em please
               G
Where are they going?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridge:
          Em                     Bm
Yeah, and one night when the moon is down
      C                G
We'll come back on you stronger
    Em                  Bm
Out on these long purged highways
         C            D7
We'll be crucified no longer

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

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

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

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

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