Tonalità: C major
Verse 1
E
B
E
C#m
E
A
Bsus4
E
He was a simple
C#m
Bsus4
E
A
man only to a stranger.
Bsus4
A
E
B
C#m
And the kindness in his eyes
E
A
E
Bsus4
B
I still remem ber.
Now that he is old,
Bsus4
They say he's angry and he's cold,
E
That his soul is dying.
C#m
Bsus4
Esus4
A
Verse 2
A
E
G#m
C#m
He's a wealthy man's dream,
Bsus4
A
And he's a working
Esus4
E
man's dime.
B
C#m
B
He has stood in both men's shoes
A
B
In his own damn time.
The hard times of the thirties
A
Still linger in his mind
E
G#m
B
C#m
B
E
When he is lonely.
A
B
E
G#m
C#m
E
A
F#m
B
He's out there in the cold,
G#m
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
C#m
F#m
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
B
A
But he's a man of sixty- five.
G#m
Where ain't a soul in El Paso
B
Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 3
B
E
B
Now, he traded in his
C#m
Bsus4
draftsman's pen
A
For a fishing pole.
E
B
C#m
And his mansion on the hill
B
A
B
Is an alley in El Paso.
The anchors of the fifties
A
Still hold to broken dreams
Esus4
E
G#m
B
C#m
B
E
When his sorrows grow.
A
Interlude 1
E
B
C#m
B
Bsus4
A
E
F#m
Verse 4
F#m
B
He's out there in the cold,
G#m
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
C#m
F#m
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
B
A
But he's a man of sixty- five.
G#m
There ain't a soul in El Paso
F#m
B
Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 5
E
B
C#m
Now, they tell me that John Philip
B
E
A
Loved to gamble in his day.
E
B
C#m
E
And he burned his bridges well
A
When he walked away.
B
He closed those corporate doors,
A
Left his children and his home
E
B
Now no one owns him.
Outro 1
C#m
E
A
E
B
C#m
B
A
E
B
C#m
B
E
A
E
F#m
E
B
E
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