I Shot You Down Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

4/4 Time

Listen to the CD for strumming patterns.

Riff

Intro

[riff x4]

Verse 1

Am I have been awakenedAm/F♯, by an urgent caller's ringing

F [riff x2]

But I really don't come to until I hear the speaker

Am It's a job for me to dAm/F♯o, a name, address, a place where I can reach her

F I'm to call her back as soon as I know the job is Amthrough

Bridge

G And I know that there'll never be a Fheaven free

 As I Dmlight up my lucky, get in my car

FDrive to the place I've been Gtold that you are

Chorus 1

 And AmI, I shot you down copperAm/F♯, And it was my will

F As I see the life leave Dsus2from yF♯our eyes

 I Eknow that this is one time that E7you won't bring me in

 And AmI, I shot you down copperAm/F♯, And it was my will

F And as you fall beneath my Dsus2headliF♯ghts, I straiEghten on my hat and disappearE7

I know I have just killed a man

Solo

[riff x4] - G - F - Dm - F - G

Chorus 2

 And AmI, I shot you down copperAm/F♯, And it was my will

F As I see the life leave Dsus2from yF♯our eyes

 I Eknow that this is one time that E7you won't bring me in

 And AmI, I shot you down copperAm/F♯, And it was my will

F And as you fall beneath my Dsus2headliF♯ghts, I straiEghten on my hat and disappearE7

Outro

Am They will never catch meAm/F♯, 'cause I love the job I do

F It's just a shiver of my spine and a squeeze of the tAmrigger