Desperado (Play Along)
by Eagles · posted by Billy_Idle
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How to read this tab — notation key
- +
- Blow note
- −
- Draw note
- b or '
- Half-step bend
- bb or ''
- Two half-step bend
- bbb or '''
- Three half-step bend
- (###)
- Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
- < or *
- Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)
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Tab
Desperado / Eagles
Tabbed for C Chromatic (Key of G) so you can ...
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Desperado
-8 -9 -8 10 -9 -8 7 6 7 6 -7 7
3 -4 -5 -4 6 -5 -4 3 -4 -3 3 -3 -1
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
-4 -3 -3 3 -4 -3 3 2 3 2 -3 3
You've been out ridin' fences for so long now
3 3 -4 -5 -4 6 -5 -1 -3 -3 -3
Oh, you're a hard one, I know that you got your reasons
-4 -3 3 -4 -5 -3* -3 3 2 3 2 -3 3
These things that are pleasin' you can hurt you somehow
3 -4 -5 -4 6 -5 3 -1 -3 -4 -3 3
Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
3 3 7 7 7 7 -6* -5 6
She'll beat you if she's able
-5 6 -5 -5 -4 -5 -4 3
The Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
-1 3 3 -4 3 -3 3 2 3 3
Now seems to me some fine things
3 7 7 7 7 -6* -5
Have been laid upon your table
-4 -5 6 6 -6* 7 -5 -4 3
But you only want the ones that you can't get
-4 -3 -4 -4 6 -4 -3 3 -3 -3 -3
Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
-4 -3 -3 3 -5 3 -3 2 3 2 -3 3
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
3 -4 -5 6 -5 3 -4 -4 -3 3 -3
Freedom, oh, freedom, that's just some people talkin'
-4 -5 6 -5 -3 3 -3* -3 3 2 3 -3 3
Your prison is walkin' through this world all alone
3 -4 -5 -4 6 -5 -4 3 -3 -4 -3 3
Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime?
3 3 7 7 7 7 7 -6* 6 -6* -5
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
-5 6 6 6 6 -5 6 -5 3
It's hard to tell the nighttime from the day
-1 3 3 -4 -3 3 -3 3 6 -5 -5 5 -4
Losin' all your highs and lows
7 7 7 7 -6* 6 -6* 6 -5
Ain't it funny how the feelin' goes away
-4 -5 6 6 6 -5 6 -5 3 3 -3
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
-4 -3 -3 3 -5 -3 3 2 3 2 -3 3
Come down from your fences, open the gate
3 -4 -5 6 -5 3 6 -4 -4 -4 -3
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
-4 -3 3 -4 -5 -5 -3 3 2 3 2 -3 3
You better let somebody love you (Let somebody love you)
-4 -3 3 -4 -5 -5 -4 6 -5 -5 7 7 7 6 -7 7
You better let somebody love you
6 -5 -5 3 -4 -5 -5 -4 6 -5 -4 -3 3 -4
Before it's too late
-1 -3 -4 -4 -3 -4 -3 -4 -3 3 -1 3
-8 -9 -8 10 -9 -8 7 6 7 6 -7 7 -5* -4* -4
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