Clovis New Mexico chords by Hank Williams Jr.

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
G

Verse 1:
            D         G            D
Well me and Billy, we left Bossier City
      C                        G
And decided that we'd head out west
          G        D            G           D
We'd been East and South but it didn't work out,
C                D       G
We were getting' nowhere fast
G          D          G            D
Me with my guitar and him with his saddle,
C                    G
Tryin' to out do the rest
G         D             G             D
I sang my heart out and he rides them broncs down,
       C           D        G
That's what me and Billy do best

Verse 2:
        G          D          G          D
We took Interstate 20 'til we ran out of money
     C                  G
At a place just past Abilene
     G         D              G          D
So I sang at a honky tonk and he broke a bad bronc
    C              D            G
And we bought some gas and some beans
       G           D           G          D
With a whole lotta luck and an old pickup truck
   C                  G
We made it to New Mexico
   G            D            G           D
We pulled up in Clovis and I sure didn't Know
            F        C          G
This was as far as I ever would go

Pre-Chorus:
  G           D              G        D
I needed some strings, Billy wanted a ring,
    C                     G
The kind that the Indians make
  G              D             G          D
A voice said "Hello Boys I got silver and turquoise
    F             C       G
And that's when I saw her face

Chorus:
              C       C/B  Am      D            G
That's when I noticed         that girl down in Clovis
               F       C              G
A black haired beauty, she set fire to me
             C   C/B  Am        D               G
A green eyed lady        in old jeans that were faded
            F                       C                       G   G/F G/E C (x2)
Oh I didn't notice what happened in Clovis - but I call her baby

Verse 3:
  G              D       G             D
I asked her with care if she'd like to share
    C                         G
Her evening with someone like I
                 D              G           D
I said I ain't a winner, just a hard livin' singer,
     C              D          G
She smiled and said meet me at 9
                 D               G         D
We ate tacos and talked and then we took a walk
       C                  G
In the clean southwestern air
                     D            G          D
Then we went back to her house, I took my guitar
    C          D          G
And sang of my joy and despair

Verse 4:
                  D            G               D
She served me her wine and she helped me write lines
   C                         G
To songs that I could not complete
                       D            G       D
And her eyes seemed to say put that guitar away,
        C              D          G
There's something that both of us need
                 D             G           D
What a beautiful sight was her face in the light
       C                    G
of the candles there on the wall
                   D               G            D
And we reached the heights of good love on that night
    F         C          G
And I hope we never will fall

Chorus:
               C       C/B  Am      D            G
And I'm glad I noticed         that girl down in Clovis
              F       C              G
Daughter of a driller,  she's a born thriller
             C    C/B  Am       D          G
A green eyed lady,        kinda wild kinda lazy
         F                       C                       G   G/F G/E C
I didn't notice what happened in Clovis - but I call her baby
G   G/F G/E C  G
Baby