Standard Tune - No Capo The [SOLO] section seems to start in A and work its way down the fret board E5 G5 E5 E5 G5 E5 Well I must have walked for fourteen days E5 G5 E5 All that I could carry and I made my way E5 G5 D5 To the new holy land not a grand parade E5 G5 E5 Snuck across the border to the U.S.A. E5 G5 E5 Didn't take too long for me to find some work E5 G5 E5 Just stood there waitin round in the Texas dirt E5 G5 D5 And now I lay concrete the way I did back home E5 G5 E5 From 6 am until the light is gone E5 G5 E5 Then it's back to the hotel drink a case of beer E5 G5 E5 One for every person that's livin' here E5 G5 D5 Four dollars an hour but nobody moans E5 G5 E5 Cause it's three fifty more than we can get back home E5 G5 E5 Then I send the money back down to my sweet wife E5 G5 E5 So she can tell my children 'bout a better life E5 G5 D5 Papa's tryin hard just to make it fine E5 G5 E5 Fifty miles north of that illegal line [SOLO] E5 G5 E5 Late one night they came in through the door E5 G5 E5 With guns and lights screamin' get on the floor E5 G5 D5 They cuffed us up tight and hauled us all away E5 G5 E5 Couldn't hardly understand a single word they'd say E5 G5 E5 Early next mornin' judge drug us in E5 G5 E5 He stared us all down just like guilty men E5 G5 D5 He said any of you boys got a thing to say? E5 G5 E5 I asked him what would he do if he was in my place E5 G5 E5 He said there's rules boy and this just aint the way E5 G5 E5 And I said sometimes a starvin' family just can't wait E5 G5 D5 But he slammed down his gavel now I'm doin time E5 G5 E5 Fifty miles north of that illegal line E5 G5 E5 Fifty miles north of that illegal line-eeeeee [SOLO]
