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Comforts Just A Rifle Shot Away by James McMurtry
Comforts Just A Rifle Shot Away
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
[Verse 1]
C
I was saddle sore and weary riding silent throught the night
G
runnign for my life in the sleepy rio grand
headed for the boarder with a posses on my tail
C
with a bullet in my shoulder and a pistal in my hand
Am Em
i robbed the band in hebbronville when things went wrong
C F
i had to kill a man standing in my way
G
jumped on a horse road out of town with bullets raining all around
C
they got my atleast i got away
[Chorus]
F G C Am
and mexico lays waiting like a lady of the night
G C
run like the devil or therell be hell to pay
F G C Am
parodic lays just beyond the river
G C
and comforts only 20 miles away
[Interlude]
G C
[Verse 2]
C
dont know why i did it but i did it just the same
G
it may have been a mountian i just had to clime
it wasnt for the money but it may have been for fame
C
away to plant my foot prints in the sands for time
Am Em C
but the blood is socking down my shirt im cold and tired my sholder hurts
F
dont know how much farther i can go
G
and to hell with the sands for time i just want to plant these feet of my
C
in the sun baked sands of mexico
[Chorus]
F C Am
and mexico lays waiting like a lady of the night
G C
run like the devil or therell be hell to pay
F G C Am
parodic lays just beyond the river
G C
comforts just a fifle shot away
[Interlude]
G C
[Verse 3]
C
a top the hill and theres the river and the dim lights of Laredo
G
and i can hear my heart beat comforsts just a mile away
or is that huff beats in the distance
gotta keep on going cant take the time to
C
cetch my breath cant even stop to pry
Am Em C
but my horse has run all he can run the posses gaining here they come
F
help me reach the land of the free
G
but i see a flash of lighting and i hear a clap of thunder as the rocky
C
earth comes spinning up tords me
[Interlude]
G C
[Chorus]
F C Am
and mexico lays waiting like a lady of the night
G C
run like the devil or therell be hell to pay
F G C Am
parodic lays just beyong the river
G C
and comforts just 6 feet away
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