Tom Russell - Tonight We Ride Chords

Intro]
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[Verse]
                         C             F                C
Pancho Villa crossed the border in the year of ought sixteen
                                      G
The people of Columbus still hear him riding through their dreams
          Am                            F
He killed seventeen civilians you could hear the women scream
          C                               G
Blackjack Pershing on a dancing horse was waiting in the wings

[Chorus]
           Am               Em
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride
      F               C                            G
We'll skin ole Pancho Villa, make chaps out of his hide
          Am                           F
Shoot his horse, Siete Leguas, and his twenty-seven brides
           C    F           C
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

[Verse]
C                                           F                  C
We rode for three long years till Blackjack Pershing called it quits
                             G
When Jackie wasn't lookin' I stole his fine spade bit
       Am                           F
It was tied upon his stallion, so I rode away on it
       C                          G
To the wild Chihuahuan desert, so dry you couldn't spit

[Chorus]
           Am                 Em
Tonight we ride, you bastards dare
      F              C                           G
We'll kill the wild Apache for the bounty on his hair
           Am                       F
Then we'll ride into Durango, climb up the whorehouse stairs
           C    F           C
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

[Interlude]
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Am  F  C F C

[Verse]
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When I'm too damn old to sit a horse, I'll steal the warden's car
                                          G
Break my ass out of this prison, leave my teeth there in a jar
          Am                                F
You don't need no teeth for kissin' gals or smokin' cheap cigars
     C                               G
I'll sleep with one eye open, 'neath God's celestial stars

[Chorus]
           Am               Em
Tonight we rock, Tonight we roll
      F              C                             G
We'll rob the Juarez liquor store for the Reposado Gold
          Am                                       F
And if we drink ourselves to death, ain't that the cowboy way to go?
           C    F           C
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride

[Chorus]
           Am                 Em
Tonight we fly, we're headin' west
           F                 C                               G
Toward the mountains and the ocean where the eagle makes his nest
       Am                                   F
If our bones bleach on the desert, we'll consider we are blessed
           C    F           C
Tonight we ride, Tonight we ride

[Outro]
Am  Em  F C  G
Am  F
           C    F           C     F C
Tonight we ride, tonight we ride.