[Intro]
G G/F# Em
G      Em
G   G7 C
Em     A C G D/F#
[Strophe]
          Em             G 
They were Doolin, Doolin-Dalton 
        Em              G       G7 
High or low, it was the same 
     C                    Em 
Easy money, and faithless women 
        A      C        G       B7 
Red eye whiskey for the pain.
[Strophe]
Em                           G       
Go down Bill Dalton, it must be God's
        B7 
 will 
Go down Bill Dalton, it must be God's will 
Em                       
Two brothers lyin dead in
 G              G7 
 Coffeeville. 
Two brothers lyin dead in Coffeeville. 
C                           Em 
Two voices call to you from where
 they stood, 
Two voices call to you from where they stood, 
A                                   
"Lay down your lawbooks now, they're
 C       G 
 no damn good."
"Lay down your lawbooks now, they're no damn good."
[Strophe]
       D/F#    Em            G     
Better keep on movin, Doolin-Dalton
 B7 
 
Better keep on movin, Doolin-Dalton 
            Em            G   G7 
Till your shadow sets you free. 
               C                 
And if you're fast, and if you're
 Em 
 lucky, 
And if you're fast, and if you're lucky, 
         A7             C      G 
You will never see that hangin tree.
[Refrain]
         Bm             G        
Well the towns lay out across the
       C      C/B 
 dusty plain 
Well the towns lay out across the dusty plain 
     Am                    
Like graveyards filled with
            Em 
 tombstones waitin for the
 names 
Like graveyards filled with tombstones waitin for the names 
      G                 Am      G/B
And a man could use his back or use
     C       C/B 
 his brains 
And a man could use his back or use his brains 
    Am                            
But some just went stir-crazy Lord
       D           B7 
 cause nothin ever changed
But some just went stir-crazy Lord cause nothin ever changed
[Strophe]
          Em              G      B7 
Till Bill Doolin met Bill Dalton 
                Em               G  
He was workin cheap, just buyin time
  G7 
 
He was workin cheap, just buyin time 
             C                    Em 
And then he laughed and said I'm goin
 
And then he laughed and said I'm goin 
           A7       D            
And so he left that peaceful life
   G 
 behind.
And so he left that peaceful life behind.
[Outro]
G D/F# Em G C G/B Am7 D9 E