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Desperado

Glenn Frey, Don Henley, 1973· Songs Well-Known in America · p.76

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G G7 C Cm G Em A7 D7x
 
G G7 C Cm
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
 
G Em A7 D7
You've been out riding fences, for so long - now.
 
G G7 C Cm
Oh, you're a hard one. I know that you've got your reasons.
 
G Em A7 D7 G D
These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow.
 
Em Bm C G
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy. She'll beat you if she's able.
 
Em C G D
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
 
Em Bm C G
Now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table.
 
Em A7 Am D
But you only want the ones that you can't get.
 
G G7 C Cm
Desperado, Oh you ain't getting no younger.
 
G Em A7 D7
Your pain and your hunger, They're driving you home.
 
G G7
And freedom, oh freedom.
 
C Cm
Well, that's just some people talking.
 
G Em A7 D7 G D
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
 
Em Bm
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
 
C G
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine.
 
Em C G D
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.
 
Em Bm
And you're losing all your highs and lows
 
C G Am D D7
ain't it funny how the feeling goes away...?
 
G G7 C Cm
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
 
G Em A7 D7
come down from your fences, open the gate.
 
G G7 C Cm
It may be raining, but there's a rainbow above you.
 
G Em
You better let somebody love you.
 
C Am
(let somebody love you)
 
G B7 Em
You better let somebody love you...ohhh..ooo
 
Am D7 G G7 C Cm G
before it's too..oooo.. late.