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From:
[email protected] (Julie Hayne)
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:04:12
BORROWED TIME
Richard Thompson
Transcribed by Phil Saunders
(The C chords in the verse are fragments played by the guitar,
which alternates between Gm and C on these lines)
Intro (4 times)
There s riders in this county
They re taking heads for bounty
Wake up Coreen they ve come to ride us down
Sweetness we have tasted
The time to move is wasted
They re riding like a hurricane through this town
We ve been too many nights sleeping in a feather bed
You can t close both your eyes with a price on your head
You ve got to stand and fight for what you believe
You ve got to face death with your heart on your sleeve
Life is a card game you ve soon got to leave
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
If you say that you want your freedom
They ll hear you in every kingdom
They ll travel ten thousand miles just to shoot you down
Well, the judge he was deluded
And the sheriff he soon colluded
And he swore . . . six feet off the ground
They ll hunt you down cause you dared to tell the truth
A man ain t safe these days under his own roof
But you can t live your life under no man s thumb
They ll all pay double for what they ve done
High days come and the bad days come
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
But you can t live your life under no man s thumb
They ll all pay double for what they ve done
High days come and the bad days come
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
Living on borrowed, living on borrowed
Living on borrowed time
(repeat)