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Streets of Laredo Johnny Cash (American IV The Man Comes around) capo on 1st fret to match key on album.

^AAs I walked ^Eout on the ^Astreets of ^ELaredo As^A I walked ^Dout On ^B7Laredo one ^Eday I ^Aspied a young ^Ecowboy all ^Awrapped in white ^Elinen, ^AWrapped in white ^Dlinen as ^E7cold as the ^Aclay

"I can see by your outfit that you are a cowboy" These words he did say as I boldly walked by "Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story I'm shot in the breast and I know I must die" "It was once in the saddle, I used to go dashing Once in the saddle, I used to go gay First to the cardhouse, and then down to Rosie's But I'm shot in the breast and I'm dyin today. "Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin, Six dance all maidens to bear up my pall. Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin; Roses to deaden the clods as they fall.

Then ^Abeat the drum slowly, ^Dplay the fife lowly, ^APlayed the dead march ^B7as you carrie me ^Ealong Take^Ame to the green valley, ^Dlay the sod o'er me; ^AI'm a young cowboy, ^Eand I know I've done ^Awrong.

"Then go write a letter to my gray-haired mother, And tell her the cowboy that she loved is gone. But please not one word of the man who had killed me, Don't mention his name, and his name will pass on." When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting. The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay. We took the young cowboy down to the green valley, And there stands his marker we made to this day.

"We ^Abeat the drum slowly, ^Dplayed the fife lowly ^APlayed the dead march ^B7as we carried him ^Ealong Down ^A in the green valley, ^Dlaid the sod o'er him He ^Awas a young cowboy, ^Eand he said he'd done ^Awrong."