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** You play this towards the end where the "**"'s are.
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INTRO
SOL DO SOL RE SOL DO SOL RE
This is a song about best friends - -
SOL DOadd9 SOL RE
John Roy was a boy I knew since he was three and I was two
SOL DOadd9 RE
Grew up two little houses down from me
SOL DOadd9
The only bad apples on our family tree
SOL RE
Kinda ripened and rottened in our puberty
SOL DOadd9 RE
Two kindred spirits, bound by destiny.
MIm RE
Well, now I was smart but I lacked ambition,
DO SOL DO SOL/SI LAm
Johnny was wild and no inhibition was about like mixin' fire and
LAm7 RE
gasoline and he said,
CHORUS
SOL DOadd9 SOL RE
"Hey, Romeo, let's go down to Mexico
SOL DOadd9
Chase senoritas, drink ourselves silly,
SOL RE
Show them Mexican girls a couple real hillbillys.
SOL DOadd9
Got a pocket full of cash and that old Ford truck,
SOL RE
Fuzzy cat hangin from the mirror hook.
DO SOL/SI LAm LAm7 RE
Said don't you know all those little browneyed girls
SOL
Want playboys of the southwestern world."
DOadd9 SOL RE
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
SOL DOadd9 SOL RE
Sha la la la la la la la la la la la la
SOL DOadd9
Along around our 18th year,
SOL RE
Found two airplane tickets to the hell outta here.
SOL DOadd9 RE
Got scholarships to some small town school in Texas.
SOL DOadd9
We learned to drink Sangria's til the dawn's early light,
SOL RE
Eat Ranchero's and throw up all night,
SOL DOadd9 RE
And tell those daddy's girls we were majorin' in the rodeo.
MIm RE
Aw, but my favorite memory in school that fall
DO SOL
Was the night John Roy came runnin' down in the hall
DO SOL/SI LAm LAm7 RE
Wearin nothing but cowboy boots and a big sombrero and he was yellin'
*REPEAT CHORUS*
DO SOL
And I said we had a little change in plans,
DO SOL
Like when Paul McCartney got busted in Japan.
DO SOL/SI LAm LAm7 RE
And I said we got waylaid when we set foot on Mexican soil.
SOL(1) DO(1)
You see, the borderman guard with the fumanchu mustache
SOL(1) RE(1)
Kinda stumbled upon John's pocket of American cash.
SOL(1) DO(1) RE(1)
He said "Doin' a little funny business in Mexcio, Amigo?"
MIm(1) RE(1)
And all I could think about was savin' my own tail
DO(1) SOL(1)
When he mentioned 10 years in a Mexican jail
DO(1) SOL/SI(1) LAm(1)
So I pointed at John Roy and said
LAm7(1) RE
"It's all his...now please let me go.
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It was your idea, genius.
I was just layin' there in bed when you said.."
(third chorus all one strum until 'got a pocket full of cash')
SOL DOadd9 SOL RE
"Hey, Romeo, let's go down to Mexico
SOL DOadd9
Chase senoritas, drink ourselves silly,
SOL RE
Show them Mexican girls a couple real hillbillys.
SOL DOadd9
Got a pocket full of cash and that old Ford truck,
SOL RE
Fuzzy cat hangin from the mirror hook.
DO SOL/SI LAm LAm7 RE
Said don't you know all those little browneyed girls
G Cadd9 G D (play til end of song)
Want playboys of the south,
well from the southwestern world.
Ah, we're still best friends...temporary cell mates.
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