Will Hoge - The Illegal Line

Standard Tune - No Capo

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The [SOLO] section seems to start in A and work its way down the fret board



Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)      Em (022000@1)Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)      EmWell (022000@1)I must have walked for fourteen days
   Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)      EmAll (022000@1)that I could carry and I made my way
   Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)   DTo (xx0232@1)the new holy land not a grand parade
   Em (022000@1)                       G (320003@1)  EmSnuck (022000@1)across the border to the U.S.A.

Em (022000@1)                         G (320003@1)     EmDidn't (022000@1)take too long for me to find some work
   Em (022000@1)                             G (320003@1)   EmJust (022000@1)stood there waitin round in the Texas dirt
   Em (022000@1)                         G (320003@1)     DAnd (xx0232@1)now I lay concrete the way I did back home
   Em (022000@1)             G (320003@1)      EmFrom (022000@1)6 am until the light is gone

Em (022000@1)                             G (320003@1)    EmThen (022000@1)it's back to the hotel drink a case of beer
   Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)    EmOne (022000@1)for every person that's livin' here
   Em (022000@1)                  G (320003@1)   DFour (xx0232@1)dollars an hour but nobody moans
   Em (022000@1)                                 G (320003@1)    EmCause (022000@1)it's three fifty more than we can get back home

Em (022000@1)                           G (320003@1)      EmThen (022000@1)I send the money back down to my sweet wife
   Em (022000@1)                      G (320003@1)       EmSo (022000@1)she can tell my children 'bout a better life
   Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)    D (xx0232@1)
Papa's tryin hard just to make it fine
   Em (022000@1)                    G (320003@1)    EmFifty (022000@1)miles north of that illegal line

[SOLO]

Em (022000@1)                         G (320003@1)    EmLate (022000@1)one night they came in through the door
 Em (022000@1)                         G (320003@1)      EmWith (022000@1)guns and lights screamin' get on the floor
   Em (022000@1)                           G (320003@1)     DThey (xx0232@1)cuffed us up tight and hauled us all away
   Em (022000@1)                           G (320003@1)       EmCouldn't (022000@1)hardly understand a single word they'd say

Em (022000@1)                G (320003@1)      EmEarly (022000@1)next mornin' judge drug us in
   Em (022000@1)                      G (320003@1)      EmHe (022000@1)stared us all down just like guilty men
   Em (022000@1)                         G (320003@1)    DHe (xx0232@1)said any of you boys got a thing to say?
   Em (022000@1)                            G (320003@1)      EmI (022000@1)asked him what would he do if he was in my place

Em (022000@1)                               G (320003@1)      EmHe (022000@1)said there's rules boy and this just aint the way
   Em (022000@1)                                 G (320003@1)      EmAnd (022000@1)I said sometimes a starvin' family just can't wait
   Em (022000@1)                          G (320003@1)      DBut (xx0232@1)he slammed down his gavel now I'm doin time
   Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)      EmFifty (022000@1)miles north of that illegal line
   Em (022000@1)                   G (320003@1)      EmFifty (022000@1)miles north of that illegal line-eeeeee

[SOLO]