Date:
From: Jason Neus
Subject: Rhymes of the Renegades
Rhymes Of The Renegades (Michael Martin Murphy)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Perfromed By Michael Martin Murphey
G C G C
If You Listen Close When The Hot Wind Blows
G C G C
Down The Dust Filled Streets Of Old Tombstone
G D
You Might Hear An Old Rhyme Ringin`
G C G C
Of The Legends Who Walked In Their Long Black Coats
G C G C
And Their High Top Boots And Their .45 Colts
G D
Right In To This Song I`m Singing
G D C
That The Ballad Mongers Made
D G C G C G C G D
Into The Rhymes Of The Renegades
G C G C
Way Up In Dakota By The Deadwood Moon
G C G C
Wild Bill`s Ghost Haunts Number 10 Saloon
G D
Where A Coward Came To Get Him
G C G C
Bill Held A Dead Man`s Hand Of Aces And Eights
G C G C
With His Back To The Door He Tempted Fate
G D
Old Bill Never Knew What Hit Him
G D C
Gamblin` His Life Away
D G
To The Ryhmes Of The Renegades
D
And In All Of The Towns Too Tough To Die
G
Their Dancin` Up On Boot Hill Tonight
D
Laughin` At The Movies Hollywood Made
C D G
Dancing To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
D
And Billy The Kid Is Laughing Right Out Loud
G
At How They Turned Him Into A Hero Somehow
D
Who`ll Cast A Third Stone At His Well Known Grave
C D G
While Chanting These Rhymes Of The Renegades
G C G C
Way Out In California By A Long Dark Bend
G C G C
And A Mask And Duster Blowing In The Wind
G D
Black Bart Still Stands There Waitin`
G C G C
And Out In El Paso The Thunder Cloud Rolls
G C G C
Like John Wessley Hardin`s Guns Long Ago
G D
And The West Still Loves To Hate Him
G D C
For His Legend Will Not Fade
D G
From The Rhymes Of The Renegades
G C G C
And All Of The Robbers Who Rode Through Hell
G C G C
And Danced On The Rope When The Gallows Fell
G D
Their Demons Are Still With Us
G C G C
And The Vigilantes Do More Evil Than Good
G C G C
When They Masquarade Around Like Robin Hood
G D
And They Ride At Night To Get Us
G D C
From The Owl Whoot Trails The Shades
D G
Come The Rhymes Of The Renegades
D
And Could It Be True That Some Become Outlaws
G
Holdin` On To The Last To A Long Lost Cause
D
Diggin` Their Grave With A Silver Spade
C D G
Singing Hymes And Rhymes To The Renegades
D
Some Call It A Mystery When Waco Burns
G
From History They Refuse To Learn
D
They Turn Their Backs `Till The Movie Deal`s Made
C D G
Deaf To The Rhymes Of The Renegades
D
They`ll Burn Down Up To Heaven And Stay (not sure of lyrics here)
G
Cause The Raid Out Laws On the Churches And Banks (not sure of lryics here)
D
They Enforce The Laws That Where Tailor Made
C D G
They Won`t Hear The Rhymes Of The Renegades
D
They Ignore The Dark Side Of Humanity
G
They`re Living The Illusion That Were All Free
D
They`ll Never Know How Many Could Be Saved
C D N.C. G
From The Lessons And The Rhymes Of The Renegades
