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
