Murrietta's Head Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Dm]

[Verse 1]
[Dm]Come on and saddle up boys
cause the [F]governor [Gsus4]said[C]
He'll [Dm]pay three thousand

[Interlude 1]
dollars for Murrietta's Head
[Dm]

[Verse 2]
I hear [Dm]Joaquin Murrietta's steals
horses and gold
Killed a sheriff in Mariposa
[C]or so I'm [Dm]told
He's the Devil's bloody bastard,
wicked and no good
But all the Mexican's swear
that's [C]he's Robin [Dm]Hood
Well, with my wife and my sons
I work as hard as I can
On thirteen acres of Cali
[C]fornia [Dm]land
But the rains never came and I
got debts I can't pay
Now the banks gonna steal
[C]my farm [Dm]away

[Verse 3]
[Dm]So, come on and saddle up, boys,
cause the [F]governor [C]said
He'll [Dm]pay three thousand
dollars for Murrietta's Head
He don't want him alive,
he [F]wants him [C]dead
He'll pay [Dm]three thousand dollars [C]for Murrietta's
[Dm]Head

[Interlude 2]
[Dm][F][C][Dm]
[C][Dm]
[F][C][Dm]
[F][C][F][C][Dm]

[Verse 4]
I hear [Dm]Joaquin Murrietta rides
to avenge
The murder of his wife by
[C]a mob of [Dm]drunk men
Well, I don't give a damn if
it's a lie of if it's true
Cause for his family ain't
much [C]a man won't [Dm]do
You see the fever came around and
my youngest boy took ill
And I didn't have money to pay
[C]no doctor's [Dm]bills
So I buried his body beneath
that oak on the hill
But if I had some money
I swear he'd [C]be alive [Dm]still

[Verse 5]
[Dm]So, come on and saddle up, boys,
cause the [F]governor [C]said
He'll pay [Dm]three thousand dollars
[C]for [Dm]Murrietta's Head
He don't want him alive,
he [F]wants him [C]dead
He'll [Dm]pay three thousand dollars for Murrietta's Head

[Interlude 3]
[F][C]
[Dm][F][C]
[Dm][F][C]
[Dm][F][C][Dm]

[Verse 6]
Now the [Dm]Bible says,
you reap what you sow
That may be right but I really don't know
Well, if it is Murrietta will
be damned to Hell
And when I kill him, I'll be damned as well

[Verse 7]
[Dm]So, come on and saddle up, boys,
cause the [F]governor [C]said
He'll [Dm]pay three thousand dollars
[C]for Murri[Dm]etta's Head
He don't want him alive,
he [F]wants him [C]dead
He'll [Dm]pay three thousand dollars f[C]or
Murrietta's[Dm]Head

[Outro 1]
[Dm][F][C]
[C][F][C][Dm][Dm]