Spanish Johnny Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[C](Paul Siebel)

[Verse 2]
Those other years, the [C]dusty years
We drove the big hers [D]through
[C]I tried to forget the miles we rode
And Spanish Johnny [Dsus4]too[D]
He'd [C]sit beside a water ditch
when all this herd was [D]in
And [C]he'd never harm a child
but sing [G]to his man[D]dolin

[Verse 3]
[D]
The [C]old talk, the old ways,
and the dealin' of [D]our game
[C]But Spanish Johnny never spoke,
but sing a song [D]of Spain
And his [C]talk with men was vicious talk
When he was drunk [D]on gin
Ah, but [C]those were golden things he said [G]to

[Interlude 1]
his mandolin
[D][C][D][C]
[G][A][C][D]
[C][G][A]

[Verse 4]
We [C]had to stand, we tried to judge,
we had to stop him [Dsus4]then[D]
For the [C]hand so gentle to a child
had killed so many [D]men
He died [C]a hard death long ago
before the road [D]come in
And [C]the night before he swung
he sung [G]to his mandolin
[D]

[Verse 5]
Well, we [C]carried him out in
the mornin' sun
A man that done no [Dsus4]good[D]
And we [C]lowered him down
in the cold clay
Stuck in a cross of [D]wood
And a [C]letter we wrote to his kinfolk
To tell them where he'd [Dsus4]been[D]
And [C]we shipped it out to Mexico,
[G]along with his mandolin

[Outro 1]
[D][C][Dsus4][D][C]
[G][A][C][Dsus4][D]
[C][G][D]