Don't Take Your Guns To Town Chords by Johnny Cash

[Start]

[Verse]
Ab Bb Fm7 Bb                             F7                       
■  ■  ■   A young cowboy named Billy Joe grew restless on the farm
Bb                           F7                      
A boy filled with wonderlust who really meant no harm
Eb                                         
He changed his clothes and shined his boots
Eb                           
And combed his dark hair down
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And his mother cried as he walked out
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Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
Eb                   Bb     
Don't take your guns to town


[Chorus]
                      Bb     
He laughed and kissed his mom
         F          Bb         
And said your Billy Joe's a man
                                     F7      Bb 
I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can
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But I wouldn't shoot without a cause
        Eb         
I'd gun nobody down
                       Bb          
But she cried again as he rode away
Eb                   Bb         
Don't take your guns to town son
Eb         Bb               
Leave your guns at home Bill
Eb                   Bb7    
Don't take your guns to town
                     B Gb7 B        
He sang a song as on ■ ■   ■ he rode


[Verse]
B                        
His guns hung at his hips
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He rode into a cattle town
                 B   
A smile upon his lips
                      Gb7       
He stopped and walked into a bar
             B         
And laid his money down
                 B                 
But his mother's words echoed again
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Don't take your guns to town son
Gb                          
Leave your guns at home Bill
B               E           
Don't take your guns to town
   E                                                          
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand
                                         B                  
And tried to tell himself he had at last he had become a man


[Chorus]
  B                                                
A dusty cowpoke at his side began to laugh him down
                   B                
And he heard again his mothers words
E                    B          
Don't take your guns to town son
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Leave your guns at home Bill
E                       B    C7
Don't take your guns to town ■ 
                 C   
Filled with rage then
          G                   C7     
Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw
                      C7               
But the stranger drew his gun and fired
G7        C       
Before he even saw
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As Billy Joe fell to the floor
              F              
The crowd all gathered 'round
C               C7        Gm7  
And wondered at his final words
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Don't take your guns to town son
F               C           
Leave your guns at home Bill
F               C7          
Don't take your guns to town
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