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The Eagles  1973 \"Desperado\" [Glenn Frey and Don Henley]\r\n<\/span> \r\n[A]<\/span> [A7]  [D] [Dm]  [A] [F#m] [B7] [E7]\r\n<\/span> \r\nDesper-[A]-ado,  [A7] why don't you [D] come to your \"F#[Dm] senses?   <\/span><\/span>You've been [A] out ridin' [F#m] fences,  <\/span><\/span>for [B7] so long - now. [E7] - - - <\/span><\/span>Oh you're a [A] hard one, but <\/span><\/span>I know that [D] you've got your reasons. [Dm]  <\/span><\/span>These [A] things that are [F#m] pleasin' you c<\/span><\/span>an [B7] hurt you [E7] some-[A]-how. [E]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n\"C#Don't you [F#m] draw the queen of [C#m] diamonds boy.  <\/span><\/span>She'll [D] beat you if she's [A] able.  <\/span><\/span>You know the [F#m] queen of hearts is [D] always your best [A] bet. [E] \r\n<\/span><\/span>Now it [F#m] seems to me, some [C#m] fine things h<\/span><\/span>ave been [D] laid upon your [A] table.  <\/span><\/span>But you [F#m] only want the [B7] ones t<\/span><\/span>hat you can't [Bm] get. [E] \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nDesper-[A]-ado, <\/span><\/span>[A7] Ohhhh you ain't [D] getting no [Dm] younger.  <\/span><\/span>Your [A] pain and your [F#m] hunger, t<\/span><\/span>hey're [B7] driving you [E7] home.\r\n<\/span><\/span>And [A] freedom, oh [A7] freedom.  <\/span><\/span>Well that's just [D] some people talking.  [Dm]. <\/span><\/span>Your [A] prison is [F#m] walking through this [B7] world [E7] all [A] alone. [E]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nDon't your [F#m] feet get cold in the [C#m] winter time?  <\/span><\/span>The [D] sky won't snow and the [A] sun won't shine.  <\/span><\/span>It's [F#m] hard to tell the [D] night time from the [A] day. [E] \r\n<\/span><\/span>And you're [F#m] losing all your [C#m] highs and lows.   A<\/span><\/span>in't it [D] funny how the [A] feeling goes <\/span><\/span>[Bm] away... [E] [E7]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\nDesper-[A]-ado, [A7] why don't you [D] come to your [Dm] senses?  C<\/span>ome [A] down from your [F#m] fences, [B7] open the [E7] gate.\r\n<\/span><\/span>It may be [A] rainin', [A7] but there's a [D] rainbow [Dm] above you.\r\n<\/span><\/span>You better [A] let somebody [F#m] love you.\r\n<\/span><\/span>[D] let somebody [Bm] love you\r\n<\/span><\/span>You better [A] let some-[B7]-body [F#m] love you...ohhh..hooo\r\n<\/span><\/span>be-[Bm]-fore it's [E7] too..oooo.. [A] late.<\/span><\/span> \r\n[A7]<\/span>  [D] [Dm]  [A]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Eagles 1973 “Desperado” [Glenn Frey and Don Henley] [A] [A7] [D] [Dm] [A] [F#m] [B7] [E7] Desper-[A]-ado, [A7] why don’t you [D] come to your [Dm] senses? You’ve been [A] out ridin’ [F#m] fences, for [B7] so long – now. [E7] – – – Oh you’re a [A] hard … CLICK TO VIEW SONGDesperado<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,133,126,13,70,116,117,68,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-eagles","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-love-songs","category-uke-juke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27559,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/27559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}