Saturday Night Special chords by Conway Twitty

Tuning: Standard EBGDAE

Difficulty: Novice

A          G                    F
Well, I was there to buy a pistol She was there to hawk her ring
   G       Cm             Bm
The broker in the pawnshop Deals in almost anything.
F                  Bm
Hell pay you for your misery Or hell sell you someone's pain
      A          Gm              Cm B - G
And that twinkle in his greedy eye Says your loss will be his gain.

Cm                  Bm
She stood back in the shadows As the broker dealt with me
   G         Cm
Her eyes were dark and desperate From some private misery.
          Cm           Fm
His words were so prophetic When he said you got a steal
  A           Gm           Cm
I said throw in one bullet and you got yourself a deal.

                  B
Oh, a Saturday night special Is an easy thing to buy
    Cm             B
All you got to be is twenty-one or fifteen if you lie.
   Fm               Cm
Just hand the man money And if some ones gotta die
A             Gm           C
The broker in the pawnshop   won't even blink an eye.

                     B
Well, he handed me the pistol and I was almost to the door
    Cm           Bm          Cm
When I heard him tell the lady Seven dollars nothing more.
   G               B
The lady started crying as he took her wedding band
    A                G       C
Well, my hand was in my pocket and the gun was in my hand.

 C
Well I was gonna use that bullet to end my life
        G                  F
I was once somebody's husband she was once somebody's wife.
     Cm              Bm
Well, I usually mind my business, but I could not walk away
   A               G           C  G  D
His dollars just weren't making sense  and I knew I had to stay.

                       C
Well, the brokers face turned pasty when he caught my icy stare
      D           C
It would never leave my pocket, but he knew the gun was there.
            D           C
I asked him what his life was worth and he opened up that drawer
    Dm            A         D
For a simple golden wedding band  He paid $2000 more.

              G      C
That Saturday night was special even though it wasn't planned
  D                 C
As we walked down the sidewalk She reached and took my hand.
         Gm              D
We crossed the bridge and I took that gun and sailed it through the air
                      A           D
I said,  Ever been to Texas? She said,  I think Id love it there.

                  C
Oh, a Saturday night special is an easy thing to buy
     D              C
All you got to be is twenty-one or fifteen if you lie
        Gm                D
But there's a pawnshop in the city, that used to deal in everything
                   A               D

THE END!