Tonalità: C major
Verse 1
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C
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Dm
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Bb
Csus4
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He was a simple
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Csus4
F
Bb
man only to a stranger.
Csus4
Bb
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C
Dm
And the kindness in his eyes
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Bb
F
Csus4
C
I still remem ber.
Now that he is old,
Csus4
They say he's angry and he's cold,
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That his soul is dying.
Dm
Csus4
Fsus4
Bb
Verse 2
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F
Am
Dm
He's a wealthy man's dream,
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Bb
And he's a working
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F
man's dime.
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Dm
C
He has stood in both men's shoes
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C
In his own damn time.
The hard times of the thirties
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Still linger in his mind
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Am
C
Dm
C
F
When he is lonely.
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C
F
Am
Dm
F
Bb
Gm
C
He's out there in the cold,
Am
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
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Gm
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
C
Bb
But he's a man of sixty- five.
Am
Where ain't a soul in El Paso
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Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 3
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F
C
Now, he traded in his
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Csus4
draftsman's pen
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For a fishing pole.
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C
Dm
And his mansion on the hill
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Bb
C
Is an alley in El Paso.
The anchors of the fifties
Bb
Still hold to broken dreams
Fsus4
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Am
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Dm
C
F
When his sorrows grow.
Bb
Interlude 1
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Dm
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Csus4
Bb
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Gm
Verse 4
Gm
C
He's out there in the cold,
Am
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
Dm
Gm
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
C
Bb
But he's a man of sixty- five.
Am
There ain't a soul in El Paso
Gm
C
Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 5
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C
Dm
Now, they tell me that John Philip
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F
Bb
Loved to gamble in his day.
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C
Dm
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And he burned his bridges well
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When he walked away.
C
He closed those corporate doors,
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Left his children and his home
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C
Now no one owns him.
Outro 1
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