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Tuning: EADGBe, Capo 1
SOL (320033)
DOadd9 (x32033)
MIm7/SOL (022033)
MIm7 (022030)
REsus2 (x00320)
REsus4 (x00233)
LA7sus4 (x02233)
LAsus4 (x02230)
SOLadd9 (x20233)
SOLMaj9 (200033)
1/2 = half a beat
1/4 = one quarter of a beat
3/4 = three quarters of a beat
Intro / / /
DOadd9 - REsus2 - SOL - SOLMaj9 - MIm7/SOL
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DOadd9 - REsus2 - LA7sus4 - SOLadd9 - DOadd9 - REsus2
Verse
SOL DOadd9
Well I packed all of my things into this blanket
MIm7/SOL REsus2
To call this year to earn coyotes fill
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath
MIm7 REsus2 REsus2
And took my first steps into this corridor of death
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
If I’m lucky I will make it to a drain
MIm7/SOL REsus2
With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain
MIm7 REsus2
It’s the only the way we will quench our thirst
Chorus
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
SOL SOLMaj9 MIm7/SOL
Growing in the California sand
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
DOadd9 SOLadd9 DOadd9 REsus2 MIm7/SOL
We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand
Verse
SOL DOadd9
If we make it past the border, we will scatter
MIm7/SOL REsus2
Vanish just like smoke in autumn wind
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
I will run until my color will not matter
MIm7 REsus2
Hopin’ I can find some work or possibly a friend
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
There are others who have made it here
MIm7/SOL REsus2
They will show me how to find a job and a place to lay my head
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my children
MIm7 REsus2
For there are 5 others in line for my bed
Chorus
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
SOL SOLMaj9 MIm7/SOL
Growing in the California sand
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
DOadd9 SOLadd9 DOadd9 REsus2 MIm7/SOL
We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand
SOL DOadd9
I will gladly pick your peaches or clean your hotel rooms
MIm7/SOL REsus2
I will do the jobs American won’t do
LA7sus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
With their cell phones to their heads and $700 dollar shoes
MIm7 REsus2 REsus2
I will risk my life ‘cause it’s all I have to lose
SOL DOadd9
Let the devil in the mountains promise me a ride
MIm7 REsus2
Found an 18 wheeler and put all of us inside
LAsus4 DOadd9
And just outside of victory, 19 of us died
MIm7 REsus2
None of our bodies hit the floor
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
And so my wife she still wonders when I’m coming home
MIm7 REsus2
The riches that I promised her for leaving her alone
LAsus4 SOLadd9 DOadd9
I said that I would send her all that I could save
MIm7 REsus2
But I ended up in California in an unknown grave
Chorus
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
SOL SOLMaj9 MIm7/SOL
Growing in the California sand
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
DOadd9 SOLadd9 DOadd9 REsus2 MIm7/SOL
We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
SOL SOLMaj9 MIm7/SOL
Growing in the California sand
DOadd9 REsus4
In these gardens of white crosses
DOadd9 SOLadd9 DOadd9 REsus2 MIm7/SOL
We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand
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Em7/G - Cadd9 - G - Cadd9 (reapeat that fading out.)
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