The Border

Willie Nelson

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Key:
[Intro] Am [First Part]
Am I work on the border
Am I see what I see
G I work on the border
Am And it’s working on me [Second Part]
Am I lie awake at night
Am Knowing what I know
G There’s a price on my head
Am Of every border patrol [Third Part]
Am Where the smugglers do business
Am That’s where I make a stand
G I know this old desert
Am Like the back of my hand [Fourth Part]
Am I see greed in the bushes
Am I see snakes in the dark
G Some are friends of my brothers
Am Can’t you hear them dogs bark [Chorus]
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F I come home to Maria
C At the end of the day
F In thе shape of a shadow
G Holding demons at bay
Am ‘It’s just a border’ thеy say [Fifth Part]
Am It was Mexican soldiers
Am Out of a black Humvee
G With their guns to their shoulders
Am Aimed at my partner and me [Sixth Part]
Am As they drove away laughing
Am But the message was clear
G We don’t care about nothing
Am But the money down here [Chorus]
F I come home to Maria
C In a bulletproof vest
F With the weight of the whole wide world
G Barring down on my chest
Am It’s just a border I guess [Bridge]
Em Am From the shacks and the shantys
Em Am Come the hungry and poor
Em Am Some to drown at the crosses
F Some to suffer no more [Seventh Part]
Am Guess you heard about Campos
Am And Ramien
G Both of them friends of mine
Am Both good men [Eighth Part]
Am They did one thing right
Am And look what they got
G Federal prison
Am Where they’re both going to rot [Chorus]
F I come home to Maria
C Where else would I go
F Cross the River to die by myself
G Down In old Mexico
Am It’s just the border y’know
Song details

Composition: Ry Cooder, Willie Nelson, John Hiatt, James Dickinson, and Jim Dickinson

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