The Bandit Joaquin

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From the broken hills of Mexico
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We took the horses we stole
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To Sonora and the California mines
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Where you gringos dig for gold
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Even north to the Oregon line
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The story is the same
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All your women they tremble in fear
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At the mention of my name

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I rob the miner on the Coulterville Road
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I leave his blood on the ground
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Like mist through oak and digger pine
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I move without a sound
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Your finest horses belong to me
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I take them as I please
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I line my pockets with your gold
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And I am gone with the midnight breeze

Bm
I am the bandit Joaquin
                                     F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
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Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
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I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin


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There is no use to wonder why
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My reasons are my own
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The hatred I feel for the Anglo blood
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Lies deep within my bones
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My segundo is Three Finger Jack
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He cuts off the Chinaman's ears
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And wears them like a necklace around his throat
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He's a man who knows no fear

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The fools up there who make your laws
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They are lawyers, they are thieves
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They want a devil that they can blame
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And Joaquin is what they need
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So I'm the ghost of El Dorado
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but the blame is on their heads
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At night when hoof beats shake they ground
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They tremble in their beds

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I am the bandit Joaquin
                                      F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
G                       Bm
Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
          G              F#7                    Bm
I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin

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Captain Love and his ranger band
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They said they took my head
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The fools rode into a stranger's camp
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And they left the wrong man dead

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Others say I never was
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I am a dream of what could be
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But even if I had never lived
     G                 F#7
You would have invented me

Bm
I am the bandit Joaquin
                                     F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
G                      Bm
Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
          G             F#7                     Bm
I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin