Border Town by Gretchen Peters Lyric and Guitar Chords

If you are looking for Border Town guitar chords, you’ve come to the right place.
You can play Border Town by Gretchen Peters using guitar or guitar.
This song by Gretchen Peters can also be played by that instruments.
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Border Town guitar chords has rhythm and included in The Secret of Life (1996) album.
You can also find another musical genres, including jazz guitar chords, country music guitar chords, pop guitar chords, world music guitar chords, and rock guitar chords here.

Border Town by Gretchen Peters Guitar Chords


CAPO: 2nd Fret

INTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am Cmaj7

Carme

C
lita was a street angel
But
Am7
she kept her halo
Am
hid
Cmaj7

Never
C
learned to read or write so well
She was
G
just a farmer’s kid
Cmaj7

She took com
C
munion at the age of twelve
Am7
She wore a cross of
Am
wood
Dm

She heard the clanging of the mission bell
And she

G
vowed that she’d be good

CHORUS:
But the

F
world
C
goes ‘
C6
round
And it’s
C
hard enough to stand your ground
There’s always
F
someone trying to keep you
G
down
In a
C
border town
Cmaj7
C
Am7
Am
Cmaj7

Mama

C
cita said, you can’t go down
Stay a
Am7
way from the white man’s
Am
world
Cmaj7

She drew the
C
line at the edge of town
For her
G
little dark-haired girl
Cmaj7

But Carme
C
lita she had other plans
And her
Am7
life had just be
Am
gun
Dm

She ran away with a black-eyed man
And he

G
left her with a black-eyed son

CHORUS:
And the

F
world
C
goes ‘
C6
round
And it’s
C
hard enough to stand your ground
There’s always
F
someone trying to keep you
G
down
In a
C
border town

INSTRUMENTAL: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7

Carme

C
lita, now she’s settling down
She’s
Am7
not so free and
Am
wild
Cmaj7

She rides a bus all the
C
way across town
To
G
love somebody else’s child
Cmaj7

Shows up each morning
C
right on time
And at
Am7
six o’clock she’s
Am
gone
Dm

She keeps her distance and she toes the line
‘Cause she

G
knows where it’s been drawn

CHORUS:
And the

F
world
C
goes ‘
C6
round
And it’s
C
hard enough to stand your ground
There’s always
F
someone trying to keep you
G
down
In a
C
border town
Cmaj7
C
(
Am7
in a border t
Am
own)
In a
C
border town
Cmaj7
C
Am7
Am
Cmaj7

OUTRO: Cmaj7 C Am7 Am Cmaj7 C Am7 Am

If you want to learn Gretchen Peters Border Town guitar chords, The 5 chords we’ll look at are the C major, A major, G major, E major, and D major.
The reason we use all major chords is that the minor versions of any of these chords just require tiny adjustments.
Each one of those minor chords is completely based on its major counterpart

The more you practice, the easier guitar will feel to play Border Town. Guitar is hard to learn in the beginning, but gets easier the longer you stick with it.

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