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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date: February 2, 2003   
Album: Unleashed
Written by: Toby Keith and Scott Emerick
Note: You can capo the first fret and play these chords ignoring the sharp
Symbol and F becomes an E AND Gm becomes a F#m

    (WHISKEY FOR MY MEN AND) BEER FOR MY HORSES   Toby Keith with Willie Nelson

Intro chord (just one chord they vamp on) A#

        A#              D#         A#
Well a man come on the 6 o'clock news
        A#                   F              A#
Says somebody's been shot somebody's been abused
          A#                          D#      A#
Somebody blew up a building somebody stole a car
         A#                  F            Bb
Somebody got away somebody didn't get too far 
      Gm          F       A#
Yeah They didn't get too far
A#                                    D# A#
Grandpappy told my pappy  Back in my day son
   A#                         F             A#
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done
      A#                           D#       A#
Take all the rope in Texas find a tall oak tree 
          A#                             F           A#    
Round up all of them bad boys hang them high in the street
Gm                F       A#
   For all the people to see 
CHORUS:
  F                                   D#     A#
Justice is the one thing you should always find
              D#           A#               F          A# 
You got to saddle up your boys You got to draw a hard line
           F                              D#    A#
When the gunsmoke settles we'll sing a victory tune
     D#             A#           F     A#
And We'll all meet back at the local saloon
        A#                   D#           A#
We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces
          G#           D#                A#
Singing Whiskey for my men beer for my horses


        A#                       D#     A#
We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds
 A#                       F            A#
Too much corruption and crime in the streets
               A#                        D#                A#
It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the  ground
         A#                            F        A#     
Send em all to their maker and he'll settle em down
Gm                     F         A#
   You can bet he'll settle 'em down 'cause      To chorus
ENDING:
G              D                A
singin Whiskey for my men beer for my horses