Eagles – Desperado

Performed by
Eagles
Release Year
1973

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Eagles – Desperado
Key: G Major BPM: ♩ = 60 Time: 4/4
|G    2nG7    |C    2nCm6    |G    2nEm    |A7    2nD    |

    |G   G7             |C            Cm6                |G          Em        |A7      D7   |
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You've been out ridin' fences for so long now
            |G       F/G              |C                      Cm6   |
Oh, you're a hard one, but I know that you've got your reasons
     |D           B/D#   Em7      -      |24A7       D7     |44G   D/F#   |
These things that are    pleasin' you can  hurt you somehow

         |Em                Bm                   |C         -         G   D/F#   |
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you, if she's able
            |Em                 C               |G   D/F#   |
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
      |Em               Bm                   |C              G    |
Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table
       |Em            A7                 |C/D    D   |
but you only want the ones that you can't get

    |G   G7       |C                -      -  G/B    |
Desperado, ah, you ain't gettin' no younger
    |G        D/F#   Em    -        |A7          C/D    |
Your pain and your   hunger, they're drivin' you home
|G            G7                  |C           -      -  G/B    |
 Freedom, oh, freedom, that's just some people talkin'
    |G      D/F#   Em      -           |24A7        D    |44G   D/F#   |
Your prison is     walking through this  world all alone

          |Em                   Bm             |C         -            G         D/F#   |
Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime? The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
    |Em               C                 |G          |Em              Bm            |
It's hard to tell the nighttime from the day, you're losin' all your highs and lows
        |C             G            |Am7   |C/D    D   |
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

    |G   G7             |C            Cm6    |
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
    |G         D/F#   Em    -  |A7             D7   |
Come down from your   fences,     open the gate
         |G     G7              |C             Cm6   |
It may be rainin’, but there's a rainbow above you
          |G       D/F#   Em      -  |C   G/B    Am7   -  |
You better let somebody   love you
          |D       B/F#   Em7     -  |C/D               |
You better let somebody   love you, before it's too late

|G    2nG7    |C    2nCm6    |G     |