Chords
Hair Trigger Heart

Key: B

Introduction:

difficulty
very easy |||||
B    E    B    E    B    E    B    E  
Verse
B  
Cowboys we are
E                                                            B         E  
Cowboys we shall always be
B  
Don?t let it end like this, boys
E                                                                      B         E  
Tell ?em I sense something?
Verse
                        B                                                                      E  
They say trouble rides a fast horse
                                B                                                         E  
They say forgiveness rides a mule
        B  
Oh yeah, they say a lot of things
E                                                                         B              E  
That?s why I lived by my own rules
Verse
                             B  
You know a man is seen in fragments
     E                                                                                    B              E  
A scar, a limp, tattoos and broken teeth
                                B  
Scratch the surface on most men out here
          E                                                                                 B              E  
And you?ll find two men hiding underneath
Verse
                B  
But I come not here to lecture you
        E                                                                              B                                      E  
Of good and evil, black or white, right or wrong
             B  
I?ve come to sing my story
                     E                                                                                         B                              E  
I'm the Black Jack, baby, of all those old gipsy songs
Verse
                     B  
A loose canon, they have called me
     E                                                                         B            E  
A half-cocked cowboy, falling apart
                     B  
With my war-bag full of cheap tricks
E                                 B                                 F#  
Dead certain, mister, of my hair trigger heart
                        B                 F#                            E              B  
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                            E  
I got a hair trigger heart
Verse
B  
I've known love from every angle
     E                                                                                                 B                    E  
I never learned the art of the graceful getaway
                          B  
Yeah, the poetry eludes me, sir
                     E                                                                              B                         E  
I don?t give a damn what all the minor poets say
Verse
                                B  
"I?m not an alcoholic, I?m a drunk, there?s a difference
E                                                                         B              E  
Set 'em up, kid, and make it smart"
                                B  
I come from horse traders and half breeds
                E                 B                            F#  
And a savage long line of hair trigger hearts, yeah
                        B                 F#                              E              B  
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                            E              B  
I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                              E  
I got a hair trigger heart
Bridge
G#m                                                                 D#m  
All the old gunfighters are leaving town
G#m                              C#                                 F#  
Pistol packing mama, lay that pistol down
          E  
I?m still around
                                        B  
Lord, I've got one more round
                             F#  
And I sure hit the mark
                                  E  
With my hair trigger heart, yeah
Instrumental
B    E    B    E    B    E    B    E  
Verse
                  B                                                                            E  
At the far end of eternity, you will find me
                                                             B                                                 E  
At a pub they call The Sword 'n' Highwayman
                                B  
I'll have a wax museum moustache
                        E                                                                         B                                    E  
Might be missing several fingers on my trigger hand
Verse
                                  B  
I?ll have forgotten half the alphabet
        E                                                              B                                 E  
My name, my age, my Chinese laundry mark
                     B  
Between instinct and oblivion, mister
E                                 B                                      F#  
I will always hang on to this hair trigger heart
                        B                 F#                            E              B  
Oh baby, I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                            E              B  
I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                            E              B  
I got a hair trigger heart
                     F#                            E  
I got a hair trigger heart
Outro
B  
Cowboys we are
E                                                            B      E    B    E    B    E    B    E    B  
Cowboys we shall always be