It's A Long Way To Mexico Chords

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It's A Long Way To Mexico by Roger Creager is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, C, D, Em, F, D/C, D/B, D/A and Bm. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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  			G 
There's a warm breeze blowing  
C 
From the South so I need to get going 
G                                      D 
The palm trees and the beaches call my name 
G 
There's a bar that I know well there 
C 
You can drink and breathe in the sea air 
G             D                 G 
lay in the sun and dance in the rain 
D                       C              D 
The kind of place where everyone knows your name 
G 
I've got music on the stereo 
Em 
Bluebonnets on the passing road 
F           C          D  D/C      D/B   D/A 
It's a long way to Mexico, but I'm going there tonight 
G 
Line the Margaritas up 
Em 
I'm doing 90 in my pick-up truck 
F           C          D 
It's a long way to Mexico 
I know about this out-of-the-way place 
You can disappear without a trace 
Leave the world behind if only for a while 
You could just get rolling see the winding road  
Unfolding feeling better with every passing mile  
Even the getting there makes me smile 
 
Chorus 
 
 
Bridge 
Em                       Bm 
It's a place of Senoritas and where Mariachis sing 
C 
I know happiness abounds there  
D                            G 
It's a place where I'll soon be 
 
 
Chorus 

    	

Chord diagrams

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