Tablature letter to laredo - Joe Ely

          



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  Date: 10/16/96; 11:49:00 AM

  From: "Krall, Steve" <kralls@isspos1a.daytonoh.ncr.com>

  Subject: Joe Ely: Letter to Laredo

  

  Letter to Laredo

  

  Written and performed by Joe Ely,

  appearing on his album, Letter to Laredo

  Transcribed by Steve Krall (steve.krall@daytonoh.ncr.com)

  

  

  Intro:  HOT spanish flamenco guitar

  

  Verse 1:

     Em           D

  As I was riding across the Mississippi

    Em                  D

  I stopped there and I cried.

    Em                D             G

  No use for a man to keep a mighty river

  G               D

  All damned up inside.

  

  Verse 2:

  I jumped bail from the Sweetwater County

  Now I'm on the run

  On my head's, a 5 number bounty

  For a crime, I never done.

  

  

  Chorus:

            Bm

  Take this Letter to Laredo

  F#

  To the one I love

  Bm

  Tell her to stay low,

  F#

  'neath the clouds above

      G                 D

  Her love's my only alibi

       Bm              G

  It's for her love I lied

    D           A

  Yeah,  yeah, yeah

  

  

  Verse 3:

  Why did Frankie have to pull that trigger

  Why did you have to hide

  Sherriff thinks I was standin' with her

  It's for her love I lied

  

  Love will make a free man a prisoner

  Make an honest man lie

  Love can be tough love can be tender

  It's my only alibi

  

  Chorus

  

  Break:  same chords as verse

  

  Chorus:

            Bm

  Take this Letter to Laredo

  F#

  To the one I love

  Bm

  Tell her to stay low,

  F#

  'neath the clouds above

      G                 D

  Her love's my only alibi

       Bm              G

  It's for her love I lied

    D        F#

  Yeah,  yeeaaahhh

  

  Repeat Bm and F# and fade out 


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 Letter to laredo, de Joe ely 

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