Hills Of Mexico - Ricky Skaggs Chords

Chords: C, Am, F

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Genre: bluegrass, country, folk

[Intro]

C Am F C

[Verse 1]

C Am F C
When I's in old Fort Worth in eighteen and eighty-three

C Am F C
This old Mexican Cowboy come stepin' up to me

C Am F C
Sayin' how are you, young fella, how would you like to go

C Am F C
And spend another season 'neath them hills of Mexico?

[Verse 2]

C Am F C
Well, I had no employment and back to him did say

C Am F C
It's accordin' to your wages, it's accordin' to your pay

C Am F C
Said I'd pay to you good wages and often, too, you know

C Am F C
If you'll spend another season 'neath the hills of Mexico

[Verse 3]

C Am F C
Now with all this Flatterin' talkin' he signed up quite a train

C Am F C
Some ten or twelve in number, all able bodied men

C Am F C
And our trip it was pleasant as we hit the western road

C Am F C
Till we crossed the old Peace River to those hills of Mexico

[Verse 4]

C Am F C
It was there our pleasures ended and our troubles all begun

C Am F C
Was a lightening storm that hit us and made the cattle run

C Am F C
And we all got full of stickers from the cactus that did grow

C Am F C
And the outlaws there did rob us 'neath those hills of Mexico

[Verse 5]

C Am F C
Now the round-up's over and that cowboy would not pay,

C Am F C
He said we'd been so extravagant that we's in his debt that day.

C Am F C
But we showed him about the punchers, that bankrupt would not go,

C Am F C
So we left that feller's bones to bleach in the hills of Mexico

[Verse 6]

C Am F C
Well, they sent along that old steamboat and back to home did go

C Am F C
How those bells started ringing, them whistles they did blow

C Am F C
Going back to friends and loves ones and I'll tell them not to go

C Am F C
To that God-forsaken country 'neath them hills of Mexico

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