Miguel Chords by Gordon Lightfoot

[Start]

[Intro]

[Verse]
G Gmaj7 Bm G                                 Bm                   
■ ■     ■  Never had much to say he traveled alone with no friends
Gmaj7                           Bm              
Like a shadowy ghost at dawn he came and he went
G                    A               Gbm               Bm             
Through the woodland swiftly gliding to the young maid he came gliding
E                                  A      D    A7
Where she'd run to meet him by the garden wall ■ 
      Bm                        D   
Oh my sweet Miguel I will never tell
                 Bm                   D   
No one will ever know what I know too well
                   G                   D               G             D   
And he'd smile and lay his head on her breast and he'd say I have no fear


[Chorus]
G                                             A             
They're waiting for me to cross the border to swim the river
D                     G     
'cause I've done that before
   A                 Bm          
To see my true loves smiling face
  E7               A   
A hundred times or more
G     D                G    
Oh my sweet Miguel she cried
     A             D    
I'll love you till I die
G Bm G Gmaj7 Bm
■ ■  ■ ■     ■ 


[Verse]
G                           Bm             
He was born to the south in Mexico they say
Gmaj7                G           Bm            
■     The child of a man who had soon gone away
G              A                Gbm           Bm             
But his mother loved him dearly and she would take him yearly
E                            A         A7
To the great Cathedral in St Augustine ■ 
      Bm                         D   
Oh my young Miguel listen to the bell
      Bm                     D   
Of my poverty you must never tell
             G                       D    
And he cried himself to sleep in the night
       G                    D    
And he vowed to make things right
      G                                      A          
So he took the gun down from the wall and he paid a call
   D          G         
He knew she'd understand


[Chorus]
  A              Bm         
A lawman came to capture him
    E7                A   
The gun jumped in his hand
G  D                 G    
Oh Miguel the mother cried
         A          D         
You must run son or you'll die


[Inst]
G Gmaj7 Bm Gmaj7 G Bm
■ ■     ■  ■     ■ ■ 


[Verse]
G                                Bm                 
So the story is told of his true love cross the line
Gmaj7                  G          Bm               
■     As strong as the oak and as sweet as the vine
G         A                  Gbm         Bm      E      
■ And the child she bore him came on the fateful mornin'
                          A     D    A7
When they sent him to his final rest ■ 


[Chorus]
      Bm                         D   
Oh my sweet Miguel listen to the bell
                 Bm                      D   
No one will ever know of what I know too well
                     G                    D     
Then she'd smile and lay the child on her breast
          G             D   
And she'd say I have no fear
    G                                      A             
I'm waiting for you to cross the border to swim the river
       D                G     
'cause you've done that before
   A                   Bm          
To see your true loves smiling face
  E7               A   
A hundred times or more
G     D                G    
Oh my sweet Miguel she cried
     A               D   A G D
I'll love you till I die ■ ■ ■


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