Eddie Money
Gimme Some Water
Standard Tuning
Chords
A G D A (x2)
-- Verse 1 --
A G D A
Mama never understood what it's like for a losin man
A G D A
when her number one son goes bad playing cards with the devils hand
A G D A
Boy Daddy got real sick so quick four walls never understand
A G D A
I was the one who got good with the gun took the money from the rich mans land
-- Chorus --
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I shot a man on the mexican border
A G D
cool cool water
A G D A
gimme some water
A G D A
I need a little water
-- Verse 2 --
A G D A
Jimmy grew up so fast then he met me at the pass one day
A G D A
Said you a wanted man take your brothers hand I'll be running with you anyway
A G D A
so we rode late into the night lightin fires on the desert sand
A G D A
till one day the posse caught us cause the sherrif always gets his man
-- Chorus --
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I killed man on the mexican border
A ( beat only)
cool cool water I need a little water
-- Turnaround --
D G D A
Oh geez if I could just get loose my hands
D G D C
I'd run just as fast as my legs can
D G D A
but lord I got no room to run
D G D A
shouldn't have done what I did with that there gun
-- Solo --
D G D A (x4)
I hate it (3rd round)
A G D A
Gimme some water cause I killed a man on the mexican border
A G D (2 hard then stop)
cool cool water
-- Verse 3 --
A G D A
can't you see that long white rope hanging from the hangmans tree
A G D A
take a restless horse time my hands of course tell my mother that I'm finally free
A G D A
let me die like a man no one understands let me pray let a poor man pray
A A (muted)
smack that horse in the ass with my last dying gasp my brother could hear me say
-- Chorus --
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I shot a man on the mexican border
A G D A
cool cool water gimme some water
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I shot a man on the mexican border
A G D A
cool cool water gimme some water
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I shot a man on the mexican border
A G D A
cool cool water gimme some water
A G D A
Gimme some water cuz I killed a man on the mexican border
A G D A
cool sweet water gimme some water
A G D A (x2)