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