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Date: 1/31/98; 7:26:46 PM
From: cowboy@laughlin.net (Ken Bennett)
Subject: "Caballo Diablo" by "Chris LeDoux"

Caballo Diablo
by Charlie Daniels
As performed by Chris LeDoux
Transcribed by Ken Bennett (cowboy@laughlin.net)

Capo 4th Fret

Am                   G      F                         E
Wild as a coastal barranca, swift as the wind blowinâ free
     Am                             G
With two eyes like fire brands that glow in the night
          F                         E
Somewhere up there heâs waitinâ for me
    Am                       G             F                       E
And he knows that Iâm cominâ for him, And I just canât rest Îtil I find
     Am                        G
That raven black stallion that wears no manâs brand
       F                         E
with a wild restless spirit like mine

Chorus
Am                      G                                Am
They call him Caballo Diablo, half horse half devil they say
Am                  G           F         G       Am
Caballo Diablo, the outlaw up a top the Sierra Madre

Am                      G         F                            E
Two men before tried to take him, they had their chance one by one
    Am                            G
But each met his fate when those flashinâ black hooves
        F                        E
brought death ÎNeath the Mexican sun
Am                          G              F                         E
Still I canât leave, I must find him,  You fool of a horse canât you
see?
  Am                        G
F                        E
I may be half man, but the other halfâs devil, And youâre just exactly
like me

Chorus

Am                          G          F             E
Even the breeze has stopped movinâ all hush now, be still,
Am                       G
Donât make a sound stay close to the ground
           F                     E
ÎCuz heâs waitinâ just over that hill
Am                         G             F                          E
Down wind behind him move quickly, do it fast now, heâs startinâ to stir

       Am                    G
Grab a handful of mane, then up on to his back,
    F                              E
And start rakinâ him down with my spurs
    Am                       G           F                    E
But try as he will he canât shake me as over the precipice we go
   Am                       G                      F              E
To shed the life blood of a horse and a man on the rocky sierra below

Chorus