• Song:

    Desperado

  • Artist:

    Eagles

  • Album:

    Selected Works 1972 to ...

Song: Desperado
Artist: Eagles
Author: Dave Rancour (drancour@gmail.com)
Tuning: EADG (Standard)

  Don't your feet get cold in the winter time

G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------2----------|
E|-----------0-------------------------------|

  The sky won't snow and sun won't shine
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|----3--------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------3---------2---------|

  It's hard to tell the nighttime from the day
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------3--------------------|
E|0----------------------------------------3-|

  Your losin all your highs and lows
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------2----------------------|
E|0------------------------------------------|

* There's a trailer here at the end of this verse
  from A (5 on the E string) to D (5 on the A string)
  - listen to the song for the timing

  Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away
G|--------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|3-----------------------------------------5-|
E|-----------------------3------------5-------|

  Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
G|-------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-----------0-2-----------3----3--3----3----|
E|------3-3----------------------------------|


* Little run after "gate", goes into the next verse
  Listen to the song for the time, pretty smooth 8th notes

  Come down from your fences, open the gate
G|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------5------5-3-2-0--|
E|3---------2---------0-------5------------------------|

  It might be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------0---2---------3---3---3-----3--|
E|------------3-3-------------------------------------|

  You better let somebody love you (Let somebody love you)
G|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------3---2----------0------|
E|-----------3---2----------0-----------------------------|

  You better let somebody love you before it's too late
G|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------5---6--------7----------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
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