Boz Scaggs – King Of El Paso (Guitar)

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[Intro] Gm7 [Verse 1]

Gm7     C
About a million stars in that desert sky

                                                Gm7
So high and lonesome it can make you want to cry

Or drive your young blood wild

        C
And a burning glow above that northern ridge

                                                Gm7
Three day ride will get you straight down to old Juarez

A fool's El Dorado [Chorus 1]

              Gm  N.C.
He got a taste for Mescal and sweet perfume

                Gm      N.C.
Didn't take long to get him in the back room

Gm
All of sixteen and first taste of the border

[Verse 2]

Gm7        C
There's a pile of bones out on the desert floor

                                   Gm7
All that's left of el Conquistador.. the conqueror

        C
Well I rode that beast down into the ground

Through every draw and every border town

        Gm7
That devil carried me

[Chorus 2]

       Gm     N.C.
You watch a few go down to the fire or the rope

                  Gm    N.C.                   Gm
 You leave little to chance and nothing to hope

Gm7
An old 24 and nothing could hold me down

                    C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)

                        Gm7
Ain't gonna ride no more

[Verse 3]

          C
Well you cross it once you're gonna cross it again

                                             Gm7
Something keeps you coming back to that shadowland

And so I did for the mysteries

               C
To hear that old soul stirrer slamming through the night

                                        Gm7
Tombstone train cuts its own daylight

Ain't gonna ride no more [Chorus 3]

               Gm        
Though my leathers torn and my cuffs in tatters

           Gm   
My heads on straight and that's all that matters

        Gm7     
If I lose a few moves it ain't no loss

                  Gm   N.C.
Cause there's only one border left for me to cross

               C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)

I'll take my sweet time on that one

C                     Gm7
Ain't gonna ride no more

               C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)

C                        Gm7
Oh, I ain't gonna ride no more

[Chorus 4]

Gm7              C
They call me King Of El Paso and my advice

                                     Gm7
Learn that road between here and paradise

               C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)

                    Gm7
Ain't gonna ride no more

C Gm7 [Outro]

               C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)

                Gm7         C
(Ain't gonna ride no more)