G             C             G 
Born under a south Kentucky sky 
G                 C          G 
He'd come west to Mexico to fight  
C 
1842 at Mier 
     G                  E  
The gutters filled with blood and fear 
G               D             G 
Barely made it back to Texas alive 

     G             C                     G 
With Missouri Volunteers when the war began 
     G       C               G  
In '46 they crossed the Rio Grande 
C                  
There he met his dark-eyed love 
     G                     E                            
But said good bye when the war was done 
   G                    D             G 
He swore that he'd come back for her again 

C  E      G 
Oh oh novia 
C   E       D       C 
Oh oh your man is gone 
C 
Maybe he's in Texas 
           G                E 
But we'll take what God has left us 
           G             D               G 
And we'll leave for California with the dawn 

G                   C          G 
Worked his way back to Old Mexico 
      G                  C               G 
To reclaim the love he'd left two years ago 
C         
Back to those same city walls 
      G                   E 
Where he'd watched copper cannonballs 
      G                 D              G 
Like wayward suns roll down the cobblestones 

     G              C           G 
They put him in a prison left alone 
     G            C                  G 
With other yankee fools so far from home 
   C 
Parade them through the square in chains 
  G                    E 
'Till in rode Captain Glanton's gang 
 G                 D               G 
Apache scalps for bounties paid in gold 


C  E      G 
Oh oh novia 
C   E       D       C 
Oh oh your man is gone 
C 
Maybe he's in Texas 
           G                 E 
But we'll take what God has left us 
           G             D               G 
And we'll leave for California with the dawn 


 G                 C              G 
Glanton's men were killers all by trade 
     G                 C                G 
And through the prison bars a deal was made 
 C          
Glanton needed three new men 
    G                 E 
He hired the lovelorn veteran 
     G                D                      G 
The killers rode out through the governor's gates 


     G            C                    G 
The Veteran left camp 'fore the rising sun 
    G                         C       G 
No killer he'd left all their work undone 
 C 
He was not yet two days out 
      G              E 
When Glanton's naked native scouts 
        G              D                       G 
Brought back his empty horse and his brand new gun 


C  E      G 
Oh oh novia 
C   E       D       C 
Oh oh your man is gone 
C 
Maybe he's in Texas 
           G                E 
But we'll take what God has left us 
           G             D               G 
And we'll leave for California with the dawn 

C  E      G 
Oh oh novia 
C   E       D       C 
Oh oh your man is gone 
C 
Maybe he's in Texas 
           G                E 
But we'll take what God has left us 
           G             D               G 
And we'll leave for California with the dawn