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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 blowinā free
      Am                             G
 With two eyes like fire brands that glow in the night
           F                         E
 Somewhere up there heās waitinā for me
     Am                       G             F                       E
 And he knows that Iām cominā for him, And I just canāt rest Ītil I find
      Am                        G
 That raven black stallion that wears no manās 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 flashinā black hooves
         F                        E
 brought death ĪNeath the Mexican sun
 Am                          G              F                         E
 Still I canāt leave, I must find him,  You fool of a horse canāt you
 see?
   Am                        G
 F                        E
 I may be half man, but the other halfās devil, And youāre just exactly
 like me
 
 Chorus
 
 Am                          G          F             E
 Even the breeze has stopped movinā all hush now, be still,
 Am                       G
 Donāt make a sound stay close to the ground
            F                     E
 ĪCuz heās waitinā just over that hill
 Am                         G             F                          E
 Down wind behind him move quickly, do it fast now, heās startinā to stir
 
        Am                    G
 Grab a handful of mane, then up on to his back,
     F                              E
 And start rakinā him down with my spurs
     Am                       G           F                    E
 But try as he will he canāt 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