Chords
Playboys of the Southwestern World

Key: G

Introduction:

difficulty
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G                              C                            G                                                    D  
John Roy was boy I knew, since he was three and I was two
G                                                 C                                      D  
Grew up two little houses down from me
          G                                                         C                                                                    G                                                              D  
The only two bad apples on our family tree, kind of ripened and rotted in our puberty
  G                                              C                                         D  
Two kindred spirits         bound by destiny
  Em                                                         C  
Well I was smart but I lacked ambition
G                                                      D  
Johnny was wild with no inhibition
G                                                            C                                 D  
Was about like mixing fire and gasoline and he?d say
G         C            G                                      D                 G                                                         C  
Hey, Romeo lets go down to Mexico chase senoritas drink ourselves silly
                          G                                                            D  
Show them Mexican girls a couple real hillbillies
                G                                                                    C  
Got a pocket full of cash and an old ford truck,
G                                                                    D  
Fuzzy can hanging from the mirror for luck
             G                                                            C                                            D  
Said don?t you know all those little brown-eyed girls
D                                                                                                            G                                                                              C    G    D  
                                                                                                                                          C      G  D  
                                                                                                                                                                                                        3. (see bottom)
G                                         C                                              G                                                                            D  
Long around our eighteenth year we found two airplane tickets the hell outta here
             G                                                    C                                                 D  
Got scholarships to some small town school in Texas
                                     G                                                                 C  
We learned to drink sangrias ?till the dawns early light
          G                                                            D  
Eat eggs ranchero and throw up all night
             G                                                            C                                                         D  
And tell those daddys girls we were majorin? in a rodeo
                                Em                                            C  
Ah, but my favorite memory of school that fall
                     G                                                                      D  
Was the night John Roy came running down the hall
                     G                                                 C                                      D  
Wearin? nothing but cowboy boots and a big sombrero and he was yellin?
                Em                                                    C                                         G                                                                      D  
And I said we had a little change in plans like when Paul McCartney got busted in japan
                  G                                                                         C                                              D  
And I said we got waylaid when we set foot on Mexican         soil
(Slow down)
                                  G                                              C  
You see the border guard with a Fu Manchu mustache
                        G                                                                                      D  
Kind of stumbled on John?s pocket full of American cash
                     G                                                              C                                              D  
He said         doing a little funny business in Mexico amigo
Em                                                                                 C  
But all I could think about was saving my own tail
                        G                                                            D  
When he mentioned ten years in a Mexican jail
             G                                                                         C                                         D  
So I pointed at John Roy and said it?s all his now please let me go
I mean it was your idea genius I was just laying in bed when you said
                     C                              G                         D  
3.    Playboys of the southwestern world
                             G                                              C                                    G                      D  G  
Ah, we?re still best friends,            temporary cellmates
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