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Playboys of the Southwestern World (Hey Romeo) INTRO G C G D G C G D This is a song about best friends - -
GJohn Roy was Ca boy I knew siGnce he was three Dand I was two GGrew up two little hCouses down fDrom me The oGnly bad apples on Cour family tree Kinda riGpened and rottened in oDur puberty TwGo kindred spirits, bCound by Ddestiny. Well, now EmI was smart but I lDacked ambition, JoChnny was wild and nGo inhibition was aCbout like G/Bmixin' fAmire and gAmasolDine and he said,
*CHORUS*
&qGuot;CHey,G Romeo, let's go dDown to Mexico CGhase senoritas, drink oCurselves silly, Show them MGexican girls a couple rDeal hillbillys. Got a pGocket full of cash and that Cold Ford truck, FuGzzy cat hangin from the mDirror hook. Said dCon't you kG/Bnow all those lAmittle bAmrowneyed gDirls Want playboys of the southwGestern world." La Cla la la la Gla la la la la laD la la GSha la Cla la laG la la la la la lDa la la
GAlong around our C18th year, Found tGwo airplane tickets to the hDell outta here. Got scGholarships to some sCmall town school Din Texas. We learned to dGrink Sangria's til the Cdawn's early light, EatG Ranchero's and throw Dup all night, And tGell those daddy's gCirls we were majorin' in tDhe rodeo. Aw, but my faEmvorite memory in sDchool that fall Was the nCight John Roy came runnin' dGown in the hall Wearin notChing but cG/Bowboy bAmoots and a Ambig sombDrero and he was yellin'
*REPEAT CHORUS*
And I sCaid we had a little chGange in plans, Like when PCaul McCartney got bGusted in Japan. C G/B Am Am D ** And I said we got waylaid when we set foot on Mexican soil. You see, the boGrderman guard with the fumaCnchu mustache Kinda stGumbled upon John's pocket of AmericaDn cash. He said &qGuot;Doin' a little fCunny business iDn Mexcio, Amigo'" And aEmll I could think about was saviDn' my own tail When he mCentioned 10 years in aG Mexican jail So I pCointed aG/Bt John RoyAm and said Am D ** "It's all his...now please let me go. --- It was your idea, genius.
I was just layin' there in bed when you said.." (third chorus all one strum until 'got a pocket full of cash')
&qGuot;CHey,G Romeo, let's go dDown to Mexico CGhase senoritas, drink oCurselves silly, Show them MGexican girls a couple rDeal hillbillys. Got a pGocket full of cash and that Cold Ford truck, FuGzzy cat hangin from the mDirror hook. Said dCon't you kG/Bnow all those lAmittle brAmown eyed Dgirls G C G D (play til end of song) Want playboys of the south,
well from the southwestern world. Ah, we're still best friends...temporary cell mates.