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Wild Horses

Garth Brooks
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Chords in this song15

Song

Garth Brooks - Wild Horses (David Wills & Bill Shore)
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Video here - https://youtu.be/22Lypd1Lhko
The (F# G# B C#) part in the chorus are bass notes on the 6th and then 5th strings which, if possible, can
be played while allowing the B chord notes to ring out from the B/G# chord. The intro sequqence is easier if
you play the E as a C shape at the fourth fret - x76454
B/D# - x6444x
B/A - x0444x
B/G# - 4x444x
B/F# - 2x444x
E/B - x22100

Intro

(Fiddle part transcribed for acoustic guitar)
| E B/D# | C#m E/B | A | B |
e|-------0--2--|-----0---------0--|------0--------0--|-----0------------|-2----------------|
B|-0--2--------|---------4--------|-2----------0-----|---------0--------|------------------|
G|-------------|-----------4------|---------4--------|-2----------2/4---|------------------|
D|-------------|-2----------------|------------------|------------------|-------------2--4-|
A|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|-------2--4-------|
D|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
| E B/D# | C#m E/B | A | B |
e|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------1--|
D|-2--------1-------|-4--------2-------|-0--------0--2--4-|-2-------2--4-----|
A|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
D|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
From a phone....

Verse

From a phonebooth in Cheyenne
I made a promise to Diane
No more rodeos I'd gone my last go 'round   
The same promise that I made in San Antone and Sante Fe
But tonight I saddled up and let her down

Chorus

Wild horses keep dragging me away 
C#m E/B F#m A B B/A B/G# (F# G# B C#)
And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday
Wild horses just stay wild
and her heart is all I break
Wild horses keep dragging me away

Instrumental

E | E B/D# | C#m E/B | A | B |
e|----------0--|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|-------0-----|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|-1--1--------|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------1--|
D|-------------|---------2-4-|-2-------1--------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
A|-------------|-----2-4-----|------------------|-4-------2--------|-0--------0--2--4-|-2-------2--4-----|
D|-------------|-------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|

Verse

She watched me drive around her block
Getting courage up to stop
To make her one more promise I can't keep   
The way I love the rodeo I guess I should let her go
Before I hurt her more than she loves me

Chorus

Wild horses keep dragging me away 
C#m E/B F#m A B B/A B/G# (F# G# B C#)
And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday
Wild horses just stay wild
and her heart is all I break
Wild horses keep dragging me away  
Wild horses keep dragging me away 
C#m E/B F#m A B B/A B/G# (F# G# B C#)
And I'll lose more than I'm gonna win someday
Wild horses just stay wild
and her heart is all I break
Wild horses keep dragging me away (Fade)

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