The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (12th pos) Harmonica Tabs

W: Hal David
M: Burt Bacharach
Gene Pitney
Key: Eb
Harp: Bb

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When Lib-er-ty Val-ance rode to town

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The wom-en folk would hide, they’d hide.

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When Lib-er-ty Val-ance walked a-round

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The men would step a-side

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Cause the point of a gun was the on-ly law

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That lib-er-ty un-der-stood.

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When it came to shoot-in’ straight and fast,

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He was might-y good.

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From out of the east a stran-ger came,

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A law book in his hand, a man.

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The kind of a man the west would need

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To tame a trou-bled land;

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Cause the point of a gun was the on-ly law

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That lib-er-ty un-der-stood.

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When it came to shoot-in’ straight and fast,

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He was might-y good.

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When it came to shoot-in’ straight and fast,

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He was might-y good.

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Man-y a man would face his gun

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And man-y a man would fall,

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The man who shot Lib-er-ty Val-ance,

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He shot Lib-er-ty Val-ance,

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He was the brav-est of them all.

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The love of a girl can make a man

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Stay on when he should go, stay on.

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Just try-in’ to build a peace-ful life

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Where love is free to grow;

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But the point of a gun was the on-ly law

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That lib-er-ty un-der-stood.

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When the fi-nal show-down came at last

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A law book was no good.

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A-lone and a-fraid she prayed that he’d

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Re-turn that fate-ful night, that night.

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When noth-ing she said could keep her man

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From go-in’ out to fight.

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From the mo-ment a girl

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Gets to be full grown

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The ver-y first thing she learns

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When two men go out to face each oth-er,

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On-ly one re-turns.

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Ev-‘ry-one heard two shots ring out,

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One shot made Lib-er-ty fall

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The man who shot Lib-er-ty Val-ance,

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He shot Lib-er-ty Val-ance,

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He was the brav-est of them all.