FOUR ACES
By: Texas Tornados
**Note: this song is best played with a 12 string guitar
or the bajo sexton (same instrument sound is a little different)
INTRO: X8
VERSE1
ON A MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO LAREDO
FOUR ACES STEPPED ABOARD
E
GONNA FIND A LAREDO ROSE
FIND OUT WHO WAS SHE CHOSE
SHE IS IN LOVE WITH A BEARDED SANGER
HE COME FROM TEXAS WAY,
SAID HIS NAME WAS WILLY
AND I DON’T MEAN “SAY HAY”….
VERSE2
ONE HAD AN ACCORDION IN HIS LEFT
A COLD BEER IN HIS RIGHT
ONE WAS A HIPPY,
COMPLETELY OUT OF SIGHT
ONE WAS A BORDER SANGER,
FROM SAN BENITO THEY SAY
ONE HAD A PONY TALE,
THEY SHUFFLED ALONG THAT DAY…
CHORUS
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
RIDING GENTLY TOWARD THE SUN
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
NEVER MEANT TO HURT NO ONE…
VERSE3
WILLIE SOUGHT BUT HE COULD NOT FIND HER
CAUSE “ZIMMY’S” WAS IN TOWN
HE’S DRINKEN AT THE KANTINA
HE ORDERED UP ANOTHER ROUND
HIS VATO WENT DOWN FOR HIS PISTOLA
I THOUGHT WE WERE DEAD,
BUT AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, ENTER ONE GRATEFUL FRED…
CHORUS
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
RIDING GENTLY TOWARD THE SUN
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
NEVER MEANT TO HURT NO ONE…
FLACO’ SOLO
VERSE 4
THE TALE OF THE TEXAS STORY
IS READ QUITE BY WELL BY ALL
THIS BORDER QUEEN HAD SOMETHING
THAT MADE MESE HOMBRE’S FALL
LIKE STRINGS OF A SWEET CORRIDO
THE STORY IS THE SAME
E ( Hault at this note and keep singing)
SHE JUST WON A BUNDLE
Am (Continue/Transition to chorus)
ON THE TEXAS LOTTO FAME…
CHORUS
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
RIDING GENTLY TOWARD THE SUN
FOUR ACES GOING NOWHERE
NEVER MEANT TO HURT NO ONE…