Corrido por Buddy Chords

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[Verse 1]
[C]Oh, listen my dear fri[F]ends and
I'll [Am]tell you a [G]story
About [C]someone I [F]barely knew [G]at all
He was a [C]friend of my friend[F]s and
they [Am]told me [G]about him
How he [C]had [F]nothing to break his [G]fall

[Verse 2]
He [Am]had that [C]bad re[F]ligion
in [G]his blood
[Am]The kind that brings you [C]down
and can [F]never lift you [G]up

[Verse 3]
He was a [F]beautiful young man
[G]on the[F] streets of Austin[C]
He was [F]a ghost faced junkie on
[G]the streets of [F]New Orleans
[C]I could bar[F]ely recognize
[G]him whe[F]n I saw[C] him
He had to [F]look me in the [Am]face and [F]say
my [Am]name before I [C]knew it [G]was him

[Verse 4]
[F]Oh buddy, I wish I'd [C]been a better friend
[G]

[Verse 5]
[F]What if they only gave you
love when you lied?
It's bound to really rip you
up [Dm]inside
Pressures a person into that [Am]horrible mouth that
[Asus4]leaves a bl[D]oody af[Dm]term[G]ath

[Verse 6]
Everything minus one is everything
[G]
[C]He [F]treated me with [G]what I con
[F]sidered [C]kindness
When I [F]crawled off to sleep in my [G]car
he was [F]worried [C]about me
When we [F]payed our respects to the
[G]moon on the out[F]skirts [C]of Austin
I'm [F]sorry to [Am]say I[F] was too
[Am]shy to stay in touch w[G]ith him

[Verse 7]
[F]Oh buddy,
I wish I'd [C]been a better friend
[G]

[Verse 8]
[F]And I wonder what it takes
just to save one little life
Icarus almost made it back to the shore
When [Dm]I was really down,
there were [Am]three little words
From [Dm]a couple of good people
that [G]kept me holding on

[Verse 9]
[F]Oh buddy, I'll never get [C]a chance again
[F]Oh buddy, I wish I'd [C]been a better [G]friend
[F]Oh buddy, I'll never get [C]a chance again
[F]Oh buddy, I wish I'd [C]been a better [G]friend