Dead Or Alive by Bill Anderson
Key: AA | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Intro 1
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Intro 2
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Chorus
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Dead or alive, dead or alive,
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ten thousand dollars, dead or alive.
Verse 1
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They tell me down in town I'm gettin' famous,
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they're all makin' me come home but I won't budge.
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Important folks are waitin' there to see me
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like the sheriff and the jailer and the judge.
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My picture's on the front page of the paper,
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I'm the local boy who wandered off alone.
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Now, they want me back so bad they're giving money
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to the first man who'll come out and bring me home.
Chorus
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Dead or alive, dead or alive,
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ten thousand dollars, dead or alive.
Interlude
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Verse 2
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One night last week I got a little reckless
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and I couldn't hold my triggerfinger still.
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The barrel pointed at the county Marshall
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but I only meant to scare him, not to kill.
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Now the foothills of these mountains hold my secret,
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only they know of this old deserted shack.
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But the chances are some bloodhound's gonna find me
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and some other dirty dog will take me back.
Chorus
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Dead or alive, dead or alive,
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I wonder if I'm better off dead or alive.
Bridge
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People always said that I'd amount to nothin',
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that to bury me would be a waste of earth.
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But if they'll just put my price upon my tombstone
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then the world can see what I was really worth.
[End-Chorus
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Dead or Alive, Dead or Alive,
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ten thousand Dollars: Dead...or...A...live.