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Dont Take Your Guns To Town by Johnny Cash - Guitar Chords

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A young cowboy named Billy Joe

     D7              G
Grew restless on the farm

        
A boy filled with wanderlust

    D7              G
Who really meant no harm

   C
He changed his clothes and shined his boots

 
And combed his dark hair down

        G
And his mother cried as he walked out

 
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Don't Take Your Guns To Town son

C                  G
Leave your guns at home Bill

      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town

 
       C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town son

C                  G
Leave your guns at home Bill

      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town


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He laughed and kissed his mom and said your Billy Joe's a man

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I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can

        C
But I'd wouldn't shoot without a cause 

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I'd gun nobody down  but she cried again as he rode away

 
       C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town son

C                  G
Leave your guns at home Bill

      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town


                                 D7               G
He sang a song as on he rode his guns hung at his hips

                             D7             G
He rode into a cattle town a smile upon his lips

   C
He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down

        G
But his mother's words echoed again

 
      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town son

C                  G
Leave your guns at home Bill

      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town


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He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand

                                     D7           G
And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man

  C
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down

       G
And he heard again his mother's words

 
       C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town son

C                  G
Leave your guns at home Bill

      C                 G
Don't Take Your Guns To Town


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Bill was raged and Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw

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But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw

   C
As Billy Joe fell to the floor the crowd all gathered around

    G
And wondered at his final words 
        

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