El Dorado

	  		 

Intro:  F7M  C  G  Am  
        F7M  C  G  Am  

Verse 1:
F7M                            C 
Did you ever make it back to El Dorado 
G                             Am 
I'd call and ask but hell if I know 
F                     C 
If I still got your number or if you 
 G 
Care 
F7M                             C 
You moved away when you was younger 
        G                  Am 
Was it escape or was it hunger 
F7M                 C            G 
Kansas ain't no place to be a man 
F7M                          C 
You used to say you'd settle down 
G                                  Am 
With that kind girl from school in town 
F7M                       C 
But she was gone before you got back 
  G 
Home 


   C 
To El Dorado 
G 
Hell if I know 
Am                F7M  
If you're still alive 
          C          G              Am 
There's a note in the glovebox in your 
      F7M  
Drive 
C 
El Dorado 
G 
Hell if they know 
Am                    F7M  
The difference in a hero 
      C                 G       Am F7M  
And a man I wish was still by my side 


( C  G  Am  F7M ) 
( C  G  Am  F7M ) 

Verse 2:
F7M             C 
Seventeen years old 
        G                    Am 
How our grins look scary and brave 
F7M                C               G 
My momma always said we look so handsome 
            Am 
When we shave 

( F7M  C  G  Am ) 

            F7M                 C 
You used to say, if not you then who 
           G                 Am 
You'd go a thousand times or two 

        F7M            C             G 
Now your names up on a sign in El Dorado 

Driving through 


   C 
In El Dorado 
G 
Hell if I know 
Am                F7M  
If you're still alive 
          C          G              Am 
There's a note in the glovebox in your 
      F7M  
Drive 
C 
El Dorado 
G 
Hell if they know 
Am                    F7M  
The difference in a hero 
      C                 G       Am F7M  
And a man I wish was still by my side 
C               G          Am 
Your every last memory of mine 


( C  G  Am  F7M  ) 
( C  G  Am  F7M  ) 
( C  G  Am  F7M  ) 
( C  G  Am  F7M  ) 

Verse 3:
       F7M                C 
And I called last week to talk 
         G                Am 
To my favorite old deviled dog 
F7M                  C              G 
You told me he had finally headed home