from the LP Waiting for Bonaparte (1988)
[verse 1]
G C F C G
I stand as a witness to a jury and judge
C F G
For all my sins I will answer
C F C G
My name you'll know my trade you will see
F C G
I am the Bounty Hunter
[verse 2]
C F C G
I ask no friendship, I seek no badge
C F G
I always travel alone
C F C G
I take no partners, I lose no friends
F C G
I keep my Christian name unknown
[chorus]
F C
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
G
My prize is the colour of green
F C
And if my service is easily bought
G
My faith has never been
[instrumental]
F C G F C G
[verse 3]
C F G
Dead or alive I carry them in
C F G
The cowardly and the silent
C F C G
For seeking bounty belonging to you
F C G
The rope delivers a judgement
[chorus]
F C
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
G
My prize is the colour of green
F C
And if my service is easily bought
G
My faith has never been
F C G
Spirit breaking, widow-making Bounty hunter
[instrumental]
F C G F C
[bridge]
Am F
Mine is the chase, the luck of the draw
Am
Yours is the iron hand of the state
F
Yours is the book, the bell and the rope
C G
Mine is a gamblers fate
F C G
Debt-collecting sin-inspecting bounty hunter
F C G
Never failing devil-trailing bounty hunter
[instrumental]
C F C G C F C G C F C G F C G
[verse 4]
C F C G
I stand as a witness to a jury and judge
C F G
For all my sins I will answer
C F C G
My name you know, my trade you'll see
F C G
I am the Bounty Hunter
[chorus]
F C
My weapons are guns and cunning and speed
G
My prize is the colour of green
F C
And if my service is easily bought
G
My faith has never been
F C G
Debt-collecting sin-inspecting bounty hunter
F C G
Never failing devil-trailing bounty hunter
[outro]
C F C G