The Bandit Joaquin chords by Dave Stamey

Bm        G
From the broken hills of Mexico
  A         Bm
We took the horses we stole
   Bm      G
To Sonora and the California mines
      A       Bm
Where you gringos dig for gold
   G      Bm
Even north to the Oregon line
   G      Bm
The story is the same
 G          D     Bm
All your women they tremble in fear
    G       F# 7    Bm
At the mention of my name

  Bm          G
I rob the miner on the Coulterville Road
 A            Bm
I leave his blood on the ground
   Bm          G
Like mist through oak and digger pine
  A       Bm
I move without a sound
   G        Bm
Your finest horses belong to me
  G        Bm
I take them as I please
 G
 G        D     Bm
I line my pockets with your gold
     G           F#
And I am gone with the midnight breeze

Bm
I am the bandit Joaquin
                   F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
G            Bm
Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
     G       F#7          Bm
I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin


 Bm        G
There is no use to wonder why
  A       Bm
My reasons are my own
   Bm          G
The hatred I feel for the Anglo blood
   A       Bm
Lies deep within my bones
G       Bm
My segundo is Three Finger Jack
   G           Bm
He cuts off the Chinaman's ears
G                D     Bm
And wears them like a necklace around his throat
    G        F#7   Bm
He's a man who knows no fear

   Bm        G
The fools up there who make your laws
     A         Bm
They are lawyers, they are thieves
 Bm           G
They want a devil that they can blame
    A         Bm
And Joaquin is what they need
  G        Bm
So I'm the ghost of El Dorado
     G         Bm
but the blame is on their heads
  G           D      Bm
At night when hoof beats shake they ground
   G        F#
They tremble in their beds

 Bm
I am the bandit Joaquin
                   F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
G            Bm
Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
     G       F#7          Bm
I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin

 G          Bm
Captain Love and his ranger band
   G         Bm
They said they took my head
   G         Bm
The fools rode into a stranger's camp
     G         F#
And they left the wrong man dead

G     Bm
Others say I never was
     G        Bm
I am a dream of what could be
   G      A   Bm
But even if I had never lived
   G         F#7
You would have invented me

Bm
I am the bandit Joaquin
                   F#7
I live in the wild with the bear and wolverine
G           Bm
Over hill and valley I fly as in a dream
     G       F#7           Bm
I am the ghost I am the fox I am the bandit Joaquin