Notes:
* This chords are based on the live performance in 1977 in Atlanta (https://youtu.be/oAK5Ids7l5g)
* Ebm7 is an Em with a flat 7th (E-G-B-Db)
Intro:
B - B7 - E - Em
B - G#m - C#7 - F#
B B7
Desperado,
E Ebm7
why don't you come to your senses
B B/A# G#m7
You been out ridin' fences
C#7 F#7
for so long now
B B7/D#
Oh, you're a hard one,
E Em
I know that you got your reasons,
B B/A# G#m7 G#m7/F#
These things that are pleasin' you
C#7 F#7 B F#/A#
can hurt you somehow
G#m7 D#m/F#
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy,
E B B/A#
She'll beat you if she's able,
G#m7 G#m7/F# B F# F#/D#
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet
G#m7 D#m7
Now it seems to me some fine things
E B
have been laid upon your table
C#sus2 C# B F# F#7
But you only want the ones that you can't get
B B7
Desperado,
E Ebm7
oh you ain't gettin' no younger,
B B/A# G#m7
Your pain and your hunger,
C#sus4 C# F# F#7
they're drivin' you home
B B7/D#
And freedom, well, freedom,
E Em
that's just some people talkin'
B B/A# G#m7 G#m7/F#
Your prison is walkin' through
C#7 F#7 B F#/A#
this world all alone
G#m7 D#m/F#
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time
E B B/A#
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
G#m7 G#m7/F# B F# F#/D#
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
G#m7 D#m7
You're losin' all your highs and lows
E B F# F#7
Ain't it funny how the feelin' goes away
B B7 E Ebm7
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses ?
B B/A# G#m7 C#7 F#7
Come down from your fences, open the gate
B B7/D# E Em
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
B D#7 G#m E
You better let somebody love you,
E D#7 C#m7 F#
(no singing)
B D#7 G#m
You better let somebody love you
C#m7 F#7 B
before it's too late
