Tonalité : C major
Verse 1
B
F#
B
G#m
B
E
F#sus4
B
He was a simple
G#m
F#sus4
B
E
man only to a stranger.
F#sus4
E
B
F#
G#m
And the kindness in his eyes
B
E
B
F#sus4
F#
I still remem ber.
Now that he is old,
F#sus4
They say he's angry and he's cold,
B
That his soul is dying.
G#m
F#sus4
Bsus4
E
Verse 2
E
B
D#m
G#m
He's a wealthy man's dream,
F#sus4
E
And he's a working
Bsus4
B
man's dime.
F#
G#m
F#
He has stood in both men's shoes
E
F#
In his own damn time.
The hard times of the thirties
E
Still linger in his mind
B
D#m
F#
G#m
F#
B
When he is lonely.
E
F#
B
D#m
G#m
B
E
C#m
F#
He's out there in the cold,
D#m
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
G#m
C#m
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
F#
E
But he's a man of sixty- five.
D#m
Where ain't a soul in El Paso
F#
Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 3
F#
B
F#
Now, he traded in his
G#m
F#sus4
draftsman's pen
E
For a fishing pole.
B
F#
G#m
And his mansion on the hill
F#
E
F#
Is an alley in El Paso.
The anchors of the fifties
E
Still hold to broken dreams
Bsus4
B
D#m
F#
G#m
F#
B
When his sorrows grow.
E
Interlude 1
B
F#
G#m
F#
F#sus4
E
B
C#m
Verse 4
C#m
F#
He's out there in the cold,
D#m
Twenty years away from home.
Does he dream about his old home
G#m
C#m
In San Antone?
He's often watched the highways,
F#
E
But he's a man of sixty- five.
D#m
There ain't a soul in El Paso
C#m
F#
Who would give an old drunk a ride.
Verse 5
B
F#
G#m
Now, they tell me that John Philip
F#
B
E
Loved to gamble in his day.
B
F#
G#m
B
And he burned his bridges well
E
When he walked away.
F#
He closed those corporate doors,
E
Left his children and his home
B
F#
Now no one owns him.
Outro 1
G#m
B
E
B
F#
G#m
F#
E
B
F#
G#m
F#
B
E
B
C#m
B
F#
B
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