Iron & Wine - Jesus The Mexican Boy


Tour EP - Tuned half step down
The Sea & The Rhytmn - Tuned half step down
Live - Sometimes tuned half step down, sometimes standard tuning no capo




Chords:

      G    C    D    Am
eb|---3----0----2----0
Bb|---0----1----3----1
Gb|---0----0----2----2
Db|---0----2----0----2
Ab|---2----3----0----0
Eb|---3----0----0----0


Picking:

      G1                                            C
eb|---------------------------------------------|-----------0--------------------0-----------
Bb|---0--------0-----------0--------0-----------|--1--------------------1--------------------
Gb|------0-----------0--------0-----------0-----|-----0-----------0--------0-----------0-----
Db|---------0-----------0--------0-----------0--|--------2-----------2--------2-----------2--
Ab|---------------------------------------------|--3-----------3--------3-----------3--------
Eb|---3-----------3--------3-----------3--------|--------------------------------------------

      D1
eb|---2--------0--------3--2--0-----------
Bb|------3--------3--------------3--------
Gb|---------2--------2--------------2--0--
Db|---0-----------------0--0--------------
Ab|---------------------------------------
Eb|---------------------------------------

      D2
eb|---2--------0-----------
Bb|------3--------3--------
Gb|---------2--------2--0--
Db|---0--------------------
Ab|------------------------
Eb|------------------------

      G2
eb|---------------------------------------------
Bb|---0--------0-----------0--------0-----------
Gb|------0-----------0--------0-----------0-----
Db|---------0-----------0--------0--------------
Ab|------------------------------------0-----2--
Eb|---3-----------3--------3--------------------

      Am
eb|------------0--------------
Bb|---1-----------------------
Gb|------2-----------2-----0--
Db|---------2-----------------
Ab|---0-----------0-----2-----
Eb|---------------------------


Live versions of the song are often strummed, using hammer-ons during the G such as:

eb|---3--3----3--
Bb|---0--0----0--
Gb|---0--0----0--
Db|---0--0----0--
Ab|---2--0h2--2--
Eb|---3--3----3--

and the C such as:

eb|---0--0----0--
Bb|---1--1----1--
Gb|---0--0----0--
Db|---2--0h2--2--
Ab|---3--3----3--
Eb|---0--0----0--

They also contain the same walk-ups that the picked versions do.



G1
Jesus the Mexican boy
         C 
born in a truck on the fourth of July
          G1                            D1
gave me a card with a lady naked on the back
G1
Barefoot at night on the road
          C
Fireworks blooming above in the sky
          G1                 D2                 G2
I never knew I was given the best one from the deck


Am              C           G2
He never wanted nothing I remember
Am             C               D1
Maybe a broken bottle if I had two
Am                C             G1
Hanging behind his holy even temper
Am               C              D1
Hiding the more unholy things I do