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 |