The Illegal Line Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
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Well I must've
walked for fourteen days
All that I could carry and I made my way
To the new holy land not
a grand parade
Snuck across the border to [C]the USA
[D]Didn't take to long for me
to find some work
Just stood there waiting round
in the Texas dirt
And now I lay concrete
the way I did back [C]home
From 6am until the light is [D]gone
Then it's back to the hotel [Em]split a [F]case of

[Verse 2]
[D]
beer
One for every [C]person that's
[F]living [Dm]here
[D]Four dollars [C]an hour but [F]nobody [C]moans
Cause it's [D]three fifty [Em]more than we
can [F]get back [D]home
Then I send the money [Em]back down
to [F]my sweet [D]wife
So she can tell my [C]children about a
[F]better [D]life
Papa's trying [Em]hard just
to [F]make it [C]fine
[D]Fifty miles north of that [F]Il legal [D]line
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[Verse 3]
[D]Late one night they came in thru the door
With guns and lights screaming
get on the floor
They cuffed us up tight and hauled
us all [G]away[D]
Couldn't hardly under[C]stand a single
[D]word they say
Early next morning judge drug us in
And stared us all [Em]down just
[F]like guilty [D]men
He said any of you [Em]boys got a [F]thing to [C]say
I [D]asked him what would he [Em]do if
he were [F]in my [D]place
He said there's rules [Em]boy and this
[F]just ain't the [D]way
I said sometimes a [C]starving family
[F]just can't [D]wait
But he slammed down his [Em]gavel now
I'm [F]doing [C]time
[D]Fifty miles [C]north of that [F]Ill[D]ega[Em]l line[F][D]

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