Desperado (Play Along with the Eagles in the Original Key)

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Desperado
Key G
The Eagles
Don Henley
Glenn Frey
 
Links:
Desperado (2013 Remaster) - YouTube
Desperado (Karaoke Version) - YouTube
 
Credit:
Significant portions of this tablature copied from WaltP.
 
-4  -3 -3  3  -4   -3    3Des-per-a-do, why don't you 2     3   2   -3   3come to your sens-es? 3    3    -4  -5 -4    6  -5  -1 -4  -3   -3You been out rid-in' fenc-es for so long now -4    -3   3  -4   -5 Oh, you're a hard one -3* -3  3    2   3    2   -3   3I know that you got your reas-ons 3       -4    -5   -4   6   -5  -4These things that are pleas-in' you 3    -3   -4  -3   3Can hurt you some-how 3      3    7   7    7    7 -6*   6    -5Don't you draw the queen of dia-monds, boy -5      6   -5   6  -5   -4 3She'll beat you if she's a-ble -1   -1   -1   3    3   -4You know the queen of hearts 3  -3   3   2    3    3is al-ways your best bet 3    3   7    7  7   7    -6*   -5Now it seems to me, some fine things-4    -5    6  6 -6*  7   -5 -4Have been laid up-on your ta-ble -4   -3 -4 -4  6   -4   3                            But you on-ly want the ones 2     -4  -3    -3that you can't get 
-4  -3  -3 3  Des-per-ad-o, 
-4   -3  3     2 3     2  -3 3
oh, you ain't gettin' no younger 
3     -4   -5  -5  -5 3      
Your pain and your hunger, 
-4      -4 -3    3   -3
they're drivin' you home 
3    -4 -5    6 -5   -3 3    2      
And freedom, ooo-oh freedom well, 
-3       3    2    3 2    -3 3
that's just some people talkin' 
3    -4 -5  -4  6 -5    -4       3    -3  -4  -3 3
Your prison is walking through this world all alone 
 
3      3    7   7    7    7  7  -6* -6* -6* 6 -5Don't your feet get cold in the win-ter ti-i-ime? 
-5   6   6      6   6   -5   6  -5   -4 -3 3
The sky won't snow and the sun won't sh-i-ne
3     -3   3   3   3    -3    3   3   -5  -4 -3 3It's hard to tell the night time from the da-a-ay 
3       7 7    7    7   -6*   6   -5
You're losin' all your highs and lows 
-5     -5  6 6   6   6   6  -5  -4 -3 3  3 -3
Ain't it funny how the feeling go-o-oes away? -4   -3-3 3    -4  -3    3Des-per-a-do, why don't you 2     3   2   -3  3come to your sens-es? 3     -4   -5   -5   -5  -4  -4 -3  3   -3 Come down from your fenc-es, o-pen the gate -4  -3 3   -4  -5It may be rain-in', -4    -3    3  2    3  2  -3   3but there's a rain-bow a-bove you -3* -3   3   -4  -5  -5 -4  6    -5You bet-ter let some-bod-y love you, 6    -5  3  -4   -5   -5-4  6   -5You bet-ter let some-bod-y love you, 3   -3   -4  -332-1  3 Be-fore it's  too   late