Intro: C Am F 


verse 1 

C        Am                F 
Cops and robbers, strictly bargain line, 
C          Am                 Em                  F 
 Spend the wet night tracking visions through the pines. 
                              G 
Draw my arms into my hospital gown. 
C                            F 
See the sky open up and rain down, 
G 
Rain down. 


[Refrão]

C     Am           F 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 
C     Am           F          G 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 


verse 2 

C       Am                    F     G 
Hear my rivals on the western wind. 
C       Am       Em                         F 
Hard to know who might or might not be your friend. 
                            G 
Work by the Plutonian light. 
C                Am          F     
Forbidden rosary prayers all night, 
G 
All night. 


[Refrão]

C     Am           F 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 
C     Am           F          G 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 


verse 3 

Dm        Am 
Beam of a flashlight, 
Dm               Am 
All night in the woods. 
Em           C 
Hunt us like dogs, 
         F                G 
And then string us up for good. 
C        Am            F 
Keep one step ahead of enemies. 
C        Am                     Em                  F 
Foretell worse things than such frightful nights as these. 
                            G 
Lead us to the beach by our hands, 
    C                     F    G 
And bury us there in the sand. 


[Refrão]

C     Am           F 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 
C     Am           F          G 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 
C     Am           F 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers. 
C     Am           F          C 
Mercy for the Diaz brothers.