Sonoras Death Row chords by Tom Russell

• Capo on 3rd

Capo 3rd fret

Intro:
D Bm G D G

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

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

Instrumental:
D Bm G D G

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

Instrumental:
D Bm G D G

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

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