Hair Trigger Heart chords by Tom Russell

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
B  E  B  E  B  E  B  E

Verse:
B
Cowboys we are
E                       B    E
Cowboys we shall always be
B
Don’t let it end like this, boys
E                           B    E
Tell ‘em I sense something?

Verse:
         B                           E
They say trouble rides a fast horse
            B                      E
They say forgiveness rides a mule
   B
Oh yeah, they say a lot of things
E                            B      E
That’s why I lived by my own rules

Verse:
           B
You know a man is seen in fragments
  E                                B      E
A scar, a limp, tattoos and broken teeth
            B
Scratch the surface on most men out here
    E                               B      E
And you’ll find two men hiding underneath

Verse:
      B
But I come not here to lecture you
   E                              B               E
Of good and evil, black or white, right or wrong
     B
I’ve come to sing my story
        E                                  B            E
I'm the Black Jack, baby, of all those old gipsy songs

Verse:
        B
A loose canon, they have called me
  E                            B     E
A half-cocked cowboy, falling apart
        B
With my war-bag full of cheap tricks
E             B             F#
Dead certain, mister, of my hair trigger heart

Chorus:
         B       F#           E      B
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
        F#           E
I got a hair trigger heart

Verse:
B
I've known love from every angle
  E                                     B        E
I never learned the art of the graceful getaway
          B
Yeah, the poetry eludes me, sir
        E                              B          E
I don’t give a damn what all the minor poets say

Verse:
            B
"I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a drunk, there’s a difference
E                            B      E
Set 'em up, kid, and make it smart"
            B
I come from horse traders and half breeds
      E       B           F#
And a savage long line of hair trigger hearts, yeah

Chorus:
         B       F#            E      B
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
        F#           E      B
I got a hair trigger heart
        F#            E
I got a hair trigger heart

Bridge:
G#m                         D#m
All the old gunfighters are leaving town
G#m            C#             F#
Pistol packing mama, lay that pistol down
    E
I’m still around
               B
Lord, I've got one more round
           F#
And I sure hit the mark
             E
With my hair trigger heart, yeah

Instrumental:
B  E  B  E  B  E  B  E

Verse:
       B                             E
At the far end of eternity, you will find me
                       B                   E
At a pub they call The Sword 'n' Highwayman
            B
I'll have a wax museum moustache
         E                            B              E
Might be missing several fingers on my trigger hand

Verse:
             B
I’ll have forgotten half the alphabet
   E                        B             E
My name, my age, my Chinese laundry mark
        B
Between instinct and oblivion, mister
E             B               F#
I will always hang on to this hair trigger heart

Chorus:
         B       F#           E      B
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
        F#           E      B
I got a hair trigger heart
        F#           E      B
I got a hair trigger heart
        F#           E
I got a hair trigger heart

Outro:
B
Cowboys we are
E                       B   E  B  E  B  E  B  E  B
Cowboys we shall always be