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Desperado chords *
The Eagles 1973 "Desperado" (Glenn Frey and Don Henley)
[Intro]
G G7 C Cm G Em A7 D7
[Verse]
G G9 C Cm6
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
G Em7
You've been out ridin' fences,
A7 D7
for so long - now.
G G9
Oh you're a hard one.
C Cm
I know that you've got your reasons.
G/D B/D# Em7
These things that are pleasin' you
A7 D7 G D/F#
Can hurt you somehow.
Em Bm7
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
C G G/F#
She'll beat you if she's able.
Em7 C G D/F#
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Em Bm7
Now it seems to me, some fine things
C G
Have been laid upon your table.
Em A7
But you only want the ones
Am7/D D D7
That you can't get.
G
Desperado,
Dm7/G C Bm Am
Ohhhh you ain't getting no younger.
G D/F# Em
Your pain and your hunger,
A7 D7
They're driving you home.
G Dm7/G
And freedom, oh freedom.
C Bm Am
Well that's just some people talking.
G B7/F# Em A7 D7 G D/F#
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Em Bm7
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
C G D/F#
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine.
Em C G D/F#
It's hard to tell the night time from the day.
Em Bm7
And you're losing all your highs and lows
C G
ain't it funny how the feeling goes
Am7 Am7/D D D7
away...
G
Desperado,
Dm7 C Cm6
Why don't you come to your senses?
G D/F# Em A7 D7
come down from your fences, open the gate.
G Dm7 C Cm6
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you.
G B7/F# Em
You better let somebody love you.
C G/B Am
(let somebody love you)
G/D B7/D# Em
You better let somebody love you...ohhh..hooo
Am7/D G G7
before it's too..oooo.. late.
C Cm G