Don't Sing

Tuning:  EbAbC#F#BbEb  (i.e., down half step)

Intro:  F#m  F#m7

     D      C#m         C#7     Bm F#m

An outlaw stand in a peasant la-and, in every face see Judas

      BmF#m

The burden of love is so strange

      DC#m    C#7   BmF#m

The stubborn beast and the whisky priest are hiding from the captains.

      BmF#m

The burden of love is so plain.

C#mAbm/Abm7F#mD      F#m

Are they happy to see you?  No, you always bring trouble.

C#mAbm/Abm7F#mD         F#m

Cast a shadow on Mex - i-co-denial doesn't change facts.

D      C#m            C#7       Bm       F#m

Like most I'll come when I want things do-one-please God, don't let that change.

      BmF#m

The anguish of love at long range

C#mAbm/Abm7F#mD            C#7

Should've been a doctor, oh, then they can see what they're getting.

Chorus:

F#Abm    B     C#    Em

Oh no, don't blame Mexico

DBm      F# m        E  A  E  A

That's the feast that the whisky priest may yet have to forgo

D      Bm                 F#m

They ask for more than you bargained for and then they ask for more.

F#Abm    B     C#    Em

Oh no, don't blame Mexico

DBm      F#m

That's the feast that the whisky priest may yet have to forgo

DC#mF#m

Rob me of color, make the sound duller, but never go away

              D      C#m       C#7       Bm     F#m

Through teeth of sharks the Autumn ba-arks, the Winter squarely bites me.

BmF#m

Don't ever do this again.

D     C#m              C#7Bm       F#m

Dawn breaks in the Southern sta-ates, and blindfolded he rests:

Bm   F#mE  A  E  A

The burden of love's last request.

DBm7      F#

That's the feast that the whisky priest may yet have to forgo

Chorus:

F#Abm    B     C#    Em

Oh no, don't blame Mexico

D      Bm7                 F#

They ask for more than you bargained for and then they ask for more.

F#Abm    B     C#    Em

Oh no, don't blame Mexico

DBm7      F#E  A  E  A

That's the feast that the whisky priest may yet have to forgo

D     Bm7                 F#

They ask for more than you bargained for and then they ask for more.

DC#mF#m

Rob me of color, make the sound duller, but never go away

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