Gordon Lightfoot – Miguel (Guitar)

                                   Am                      F
Never had much to say, he traveled alone with no friends

                                Am                 F
Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he came and he went

                     G                Em 
Through the woodland swiftly gliding

                  Am             Dm
To the young maid he came riding

                                    G         C G
Where she'd run to meet him by the garden wall

                 Am                C
"Oh, my sweet Miguel, I will never tell

                  Am                    C
"No one will ever know, what I know too well"

                   F                   C
And he'd smile and lay his head on her breast

         F               C
And he'd say, "I have no fear"

         F                                      G
"They're waiting for me to cross the border, to swim the river

        C                F
"'Cause I've done that before

    G                  Am
"To see my true love's smiling face

   D                G
"A hundred times or more"

 F      C                 F
"Oh, my sweet Miguel" she cried

      G               C
"I'll love you till I die"

                                 Am             F
He was born to the south, in Mexico, they say

                           Am               F
The child of a man who had soon gone away

               G                 Em
But his mother loved him dearly

              Am               Dm
And she would take him yearly

                              G        C G
To the great Cathedral in St. Augustine

                 Am                 C
"Oh, my young Miguel, listen to the bell

            Am                 C
"Of my poverty, you must never tell"

                F                    C
And he cried himself to sleep in the night

       F                    C
And he vowed to make things right

      F                                      G
So he took the gun down from the wall and he paid a call

   C               F
He knew she'd understand

  G              Am
A lawman came to capture him

    D                 G
The gun jumped in his hand

 F      C                F
"Oh, Miguel", the mother cried

          G                   C
"You must run, son, or you'll die"

                                 Am                    F
So the story is told of his true love across the line

                            Am                 F
As strong as the oak and as sweet as the vine

        G                   Em
And the child she bore him

            Am               Dm
Came on the fateful morning

                          G       C  G
When they sent him to his final rest

                Am                 C
Oh, my sweet Miguel, listen to the bell

                 Am                       C
No one will ever know, of what I know too well

                     F                    C
Then she'd smile and lay the child on her breast

          F               C
And she'd say, "I have no fear

     F                                       G
"I'm waiting for you to cross the border, to swim the river"

       C                  F
'Cause you've done that before

   G                    Am
To see your true love's smiling face

  D                G
A hundred times or more

 F      C                  F
"Oh, my sweet Miguel", she cried

      G               C     G   F   C
"I'll love you till I die"