New Mexico chords by Zoe Muth And The Lost High Rollers

• Capo on 5th

Key: C

Intro:

G C G C



Verse 1:
  G   G C
New Mexico
        G   G C
Down on Central Avenue
     G     G C
Where the old highway
    G       G C
It goes running through
       D    D
And all that I can do
     Em  Bm C
All that I can do
         G G D G C
Is just think of you
   G     G C G
With someone new

Verse 2:
          C       G         G C
I got a job waiting tables in the middle of the night
    G         C
See the sunrise in my rear view mirror
            G        G C
And wake up to see the last of its light
   D     D
But I don’t mind
  Em    Bm C
No I don’t mind
         G             D
Because that hot desert sun beating down on this side of town
    C    G      G C G
Well it ain’t a pretty sight

Verse 3:
            C                 G  G C
A few old men and some young drunks they’ll try to make a pass
      G          C
But I just have to  look them straight in the eye
     G          G C
And I say please don’t even ask
          D   D
‘Cause there is no one who
     Em    G C
There is no one whooo
      G       G D
Can make my tired old life
   C  G     G C G
Seem new and unused

Verse 4:
          Em                    G
And I guess there’s always gotta be someone out on the highway

Laying down all that tar
Em                      G
Always gotta be someone serving up the drinks

Down at the bar
  Em                 G  G Em
But I don’t want to be slaving my life away
    C                D            G  C G Bm G
If it’s just to pay for all the things I never knew quite how to say

Verse 5:
              C      G  G C
Dirty old blackbird landed on my window sill
       G           C         G       G C
I didn’t want him to leave so I sat there watching him perfectly still
     D      D
Until he finally flew
    Em   Bm  C
When he finally flew
      G                D
I asked him to cut a hole in the morning sky
   C      G
That I could pass right on through

Outro:
G C G Em D G Em G Em Bm Em G C D G