Bare Bobby - Ride Me Down Easy guitar tab

Ride Me Down Easy

Recorded by Bobby Bare, April, 1973

Album: The Essential Bobby Bare RCA 07863-67405-2

(also recorded by Johnny Rodriguez, titled as "Easy Come, Easy Go")

Written by Billy Joe Shaver

Key of G

Verse 1:

[G] This old highway she's a hotter [C] than nine kinds of hell

The [D7] rides they is scarce as the [G] rain.

When you're down to your last shuck [C] with nothing to sell

And [D7] too far away from [G] the train.

Verse 2:

[G] Been a good month of Sunday's and a [C] guitar ago

I [D7] had a tall drink of yesterday's [G] wine.

Left a long string of friends, some [C] sheets in the wind

And [D7] some satisfied women [G] behind.

Chorus:

[G] So won't you ride me down easy Lord, [C] ride me on down

Leave [D7] word in the dust where I [G] lay.

Say I'm easy come, [C] easy go

And [D7] easy to love when [G] I stay.

Verse 3:

[G] I've put snow on the mountain, raised [C] hell on the hill

Locked [D7] horns with the devil him [G] self.

Been a rodeo bum, a [C] son of a gun

And a [D7] hobo with stars in his [G] crown.

Repeat Chorus, then chorus to fade out