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Don't Take Your Guns To Town
lyrics and chords

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Don't Take Your Guns To Town lyrics and chords are provided for your personal use, this ballad is a Johnny Cash classic. Use these lyrics with chords to help you learn to play and sing this great song.

DON'T TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN

DON'T TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN
Words and music by Johnny Cash
 
G 
A young cowboy named Billy Joe
     D7              G         
Grew restless on the farm
        
A boy filled with wanderlust
    D7              G    
Who really meant no harm
   C    
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
 
And combed his dark hair down
       G                        
And his mother cried as he walked out
 
      C                 G     
Don't Take Your Guns To Town son
C                  G 
Leave your guns at home Bill
      C                 G   
Don't Take Your Guns To Town
 
Repeat #2 
                                        D7                G
He laughed and kissed his mom and said  your Billy Joes a man
D7 G
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
C
But I'd wouldn't shoot without a cause 
G
I'd gun nobody down  but she cried again as he rode away
 
Repeat #2 
                                 D7               G
He sang a song as on he rode his guns hung at his hips
                             D7             G
He rode into a cattle town a smile upon his lips
   C
He stopped and walked into a bar and laid his money down
        G
But his mother's words echoed again
 
Repeat #2 
                                         D7               G
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
                                     D7           G
And tried to tell himself at last he had become a man
  C
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
       G 
And he heard again his mother's words
 
Repeat #2 
                                     D7             G
Bill was raged and Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
                                        D7             G
But the stranger drew his gun and fired before he even saw
   C 
As Billy Joe fell to the floor the crowd all gathered around
    G
And wondered at his final words
 
Repeat #2
 

 

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Although it doesn't sound much like an up tempo song, wait until you began to play the chords, they come pretty quick. They are all easy to make so with a bit of practice you can learn it. Take time to browse Pure Country Music for a great selection of Johnny's cds. Copy and paste Don't Take Your Guns To Town lyrics and chords, it's a great song to do.

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