Clear Isabel chords by Aaron Watson

Intro:
Bm

Verse 1:
 Bm                                                            G
Isabel and her brown skin shined like a sapphire in the summer sun
               D                                       A
The pride and joy of a Mexican lawman who lived by the gun
        Bm                                                    G
He got cross ways with the cartel they shot down his only son Jose
       D                                                        A
So in fear of his daughter's life he packed their bags and late one night she heard him say

Chorus:
     G                                                    Bm             
I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
         A                                                    Bm       Bm A
They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
       G                                                           Bm
South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
        A                                            G
So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel
                    Bm        Bm A
The coast is clear Isabel

Verse 2:
      Bm                                                          G
They came across our homestead tired and hungry, cold and moving slow
         D                                                         A          
We had fence to build a warm place to stay and they had nowhere to go
            Bm                                                                   G                
So I worked cattle with her father we were stretching wire and driving post all day
              D                                                    A                       
While Isabel worked with my mother and late at night I held her tight and she'd take my breath away

Chorus:
     G                                                    Bm
I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
         A                                                    Bm       Bm A
They say freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
       G                                                           Bm
South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
        A                                            G
So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel
                    Bm        Bm A
The coast is clear Isabel

Solo:
Bm G D A

Verse 3:
            Bm                                                            G
The sheriff came across her father they treated him like an outlaw on the run
                D                                                   A
And Isabel now wears my diamond and that little boy she holds is my son
                Bm                                                   G
We got a green card for her father Mariano but it came two years too late
             D                                                       A 
We got word that he'd been gunned down in a border town shot in the back
The last thing they heard him say

Outro:
  G                                                      Bm
I hear the grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line
           A                                                            Bm     Bm A
And they say that freedom is much sweeter than sweet blood red sangria wine
       G                                                           Bm
South Texas looks like heaven when you're down here in this living hell
         A                                            G
So come on let's cross that Rio, the coast is clear Isabel
                    G
The coast is clear Isabel
                    G         
The coast is clear Isabel
       Bm
Clear Isabel
       Bm