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Streets Of Laredo by Johnny Cash
Streets Of Laredo
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
C G7 C G7
As I walked out in the streets of Laredo
C G7 C G7
As I walked out in Laredo one day
C G7 C G7
I spied a poor cowboy all wrapped in white linen
C G7 C G7 C
All wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay
G7 C G7
Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly
C G7 C G7
Sing the death march as you carry me along
C G7 C G7
Take me to the valley then lay the sod o'er me
C G7 C G7 C
I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong
G7 C G7
I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy
C G7 C G7
These words he did say as I boldly walked by
C G7 C G7
Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story
C G7 C G7 C
Got shot in the breast and I know I must die
G7 C G7
Go fetch me some water a cool cup of water
C G7 C G7
To cool my parched lips then the poor cowboy said
C G7 C G7
Before I returned his spirit had left him
C G7 C G7 C
Had gone to his Maker the cowboy was dead
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version 2
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:G
Capo:3rd fret
[Intro]
G
[Verse]
G D7 G D7
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo
G C G D7
As I walked out on Laredo one day
G D7 G D7
I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen
G C D7 G
Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay
G D7 G D7
"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy"
G C G D7
These words he did say as I boldly walked by
G D7 G D7
"Come and sit down beside me and hear my sad story
G C D7 G
I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die"
[Verse]
G D7 G D7
"It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing
G C G D7
Once in the saddle, I used to go gay
G D7 G D7
First to the card-house and then down to Rose's
G C D7 G
But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dying today
G D7 G D7
Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin
G C G D7
Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall
G D7 G D7
Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin
G C D7 G
Roses to deaden the clods as they fall"
[Chorus]
G C
"Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly
G A D7
Play the dead march as you carry me along
G C
Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me
G D7 G
I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong"
[Verse]
G D7 G D7
"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother
G C G D7
And tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone
G D7 G D7
But please not one word of the man who had killed me
G C D7 G
Don't mention his name and his name will pass on"
G D7 G D7
When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting
G C G D7
The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay
G D7 G D7
We took the young cowboy down to the green valley
G C D7 G
And there stands his marker we made to this day
[Chorus]
G C
We beat the drum slowly, played the Fife lowly
G A D7
Played the dead march as we carried him along
G C
Down in the green valley, laid the sod over him
G D7 G
He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong
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