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Sin Nombre
The Refreshments
from David Cushman, http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dcushman/guitar.html
Em C D Em D x2
Em
Rode hard and put up wet
C
I aimed down, but I can't get up yeah
D Em D
It's a long ride back to the way I want to feel
Em
Sundown across the plain
C
I've been sore before, I'll be sore again
D Em D
No place to hide to keep from running
Em
Laid down in a cottonwood hallow
C
I left the trail, no man could follow
D Em D
Is it safe to rest my head again till morning?
Em
Cracked throat and my canteen's dry
C
And rain don't fall from an empty sky
D Em D
So I'll whisper Hail Marys till the sun comes up
C
Now don't tell me that part of the story when
G D
The cowboy falls in love
C
When it's raining in his pistol
G D
And his saddle, and the stars above
G D
When the candle's burnin' down
G C
And when midnight comes around
G D
Now all the best that we can hope for
C
Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground
Em
Rode hard and come down tired
C
Stripped from the saddle when the eye of the fire
D Em D
And deep in dreams of women in clean water
Em
And I did before what I'll do again
C
So forgive me father if I have sinned
D Em D
But the old wood cracks, before it bends
C
Now don't tell me that part of the story when
G D
The cowboy falls in love
C
When it's raining in his pistol
G D
And his saddle, and the stars above
G D
When the candle's burnin down
G C
And when midnight comes around
G D
Now all the best that we can hope for
C
Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground
Solo
C
Now don't tell me that part of the story when
G D
The cowboy falls in love
C
When it's raining in his pistol
G D
And his saddle, and the stars above
G D
When the candle's burnin down
G C
And when midnight comes around
G D
Now all the best that we can hope for
C
Is to be laughing when we finally hit yeah
G D
When the candle's burnin down
G C
And when midnight comes around
G D
Now all the best that we can hope for
C
Is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground
G D G C
G D C Em
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jesse Professional |
#1 by Jesse Garcia at Dec 19, 1998 at 7:16 PM EST |
| I'm not sure I quite finished my interpretation. I left out my favorite line, that being the end of the chorus, "the best that we can hope for is to be laughing when we finally hit the ground." As long as you can die happy doing what you want to be doing then, well, you win. That's the best that anyone can ask for is to be happy when they die. Or perhaps just to be so hard-headed as to arrogantly laugh in the face of death. | |
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ryan Average |
#2 by ryan oh at May 5, 2005 at 11:39 PM EST |
| The translation for the song title is "No Name," without a name, nameless. "Put up wet" refers to riding a horse "hard" to exhaustion and putting him up "wet," rather than brushing him off and cooling him down as should be done. To me this song is about living a life that you love, in this case that of a cowboy even though it's the hard life. It sounds as if he's being chased in the song, as well, and I would think that he's just longing for an easier, "better" life except the chorus makes me think otherwise. The chorus seems to be alluding to a cowboy who's surrendered his wild and restless heart, and the life so loved by the singer, in favor of the less worthy love of a woman. | |
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