Frankie Laine - Bowie Knife Chords

[Intro]
              C#m          F#m
I got off the riverboat in New Orleans
       C#m
In the spring of '82
   D#7
I walked into a gambling house
   G#7            C#m
As gamblers often do
 
 
 
[Verse]
  C#m          F#m
I had myself a drink
      C#m
And I joined in a poker game
    D#7
The dealer was a woman
     G#7               C#m
So I asked her for her name
 
 
    C#m             F#m
She smiled at me so pretty
      C#m
But a hush fell over the place
     D#7
As a big man crossed the table
      G#m
Stood up and slapped my face
 
 
[Chorus]
F#m          C#m
Bowie knife, Bowie knife,
G#7              C#m
Long, glitterin' steel
      F#m                 C#m
If my gun don't take your evil life
        G#7                 C#m
You can bet, my Bowie knife will
 
 
 
[Verse]
  C#m              F#m
I had my choice of weapons
   C#m
On which to defend my life
  D#7
I chose a set of pistols
      G#7            C#m
And a long old Bowie knife
 
 
  C#m            F#m
I met him by the river
       C#m
By the light of the rising sun
    D#7
Was I prepared to fight him?
  G#7                C#m
I feared my time had come
 
 
      C#m           F#m
As we stood back to back
      C#m
there on the duelin' green
  D#7
I cursed the fate that brought me
       G#7           C#m
To the town of New Orleans
 
 
    C#m            F#m
The referee startS counting
    C#m
The paces one by one
       D#7
When I heard him say twenty
  G#7                 C#m
I turned and fired my gun
 
 
  C#m              F#m
I knew at once I'd missed
      C#m
And I waited there in fear, as
    D#7
The stranger aimed and fired
        G#7
But the bullet went by my ear
 
 
   C#m            F#m
He threw away his pistol
    C#m
And drew his Bowie knife
  D#7
I knew that razor edge
      G#7               C#m
Would soon snuff out my life
 
 
    C#m              F#m
But somehow luck was with me
       C#m
And my weapon found his side
   D#7
He lay there on the duelin' ground
        G#7             C#m
Then he cursed me as he died
 
 
 
[Chorus]
F#m          C#m
Bowie knife, Bowie knife,
G#7              C#m
Long, glitterin' steel
      F#m                 C#m
If my gun don't take your evil life
        G#7                  C#m
You can bet, my, Bowie knife will