C Em F G
А friend of a friend needs a favor
C Em F G
No questions asked, there’s not much more to say
C C7 F
Me and the wife, we need the money
Am G F C C7
We’ve got four kids all hungry, one on the way
F G
Slip these sweat socks in your shirt
C C7
and pray they think your packin’
F G
Be sure to keep your head down,
Am
don’t look ’em in the eye
F G Am Am/G F
And don’t get fancy, Ricky, we ain’t Jimmy Cagney
F G C C7
Look at me, let’s do the job and let’s get home tonight
F G C C7
I got a half tank of gas and if we run all the lights
F G C C7
We’ll slip across the border on the wrong side of right
F G Am Am/G F
And just like Butch and Sundance we’ll ride until the dawn
F Fm
Sipping whiskey, singing cowboy songs
C Em F G
On the Right Side of Wrong
C Em
We picked a helluva of a night,
F G
from the shore I see the skyline
C Em
In a couple of hours from now Rick,
F G
we’re gonna get out of this life
C C7
We’ll stop for smokes, I brought a six pack,
F
we’ll stop at lookers on the way back
Am
Hell, we’ll laugh this off,
G F G C C7
keep your fingers crossed that all goes well tonight
F G C C7
I got a half tank of gas and if we run all the lights
F G C C7
We’ll slip across the border on the wrong side of right
F G Am Am/G F
And just like Butch and Sundance we’ll ride until the dawn
F G
Sipping whiskey, singing cowboy songs
C
On the Right Side of Wrong
Eb
We’ll make the grade, they’ll know our names,
Bb
I need a friend to drive here
F
Wear my necklace of St. Christopher
C Dsus2
and talk to him while I go inside
Eb
I’ll take that suitcase,
Bb
get the cash and we’ll be gone before you know
F
Wait until we tell the girls
Fm
we’re moving down to the Gulf of Mexico…
G# C# | F Bb F Bb | Dm C F G
C Em F G
A friend of a friend needed a favor
C Em F G
Life was just what happened while we were busy making plans
C C7
We never saw nothing, there was a run-in
F Fm
9 millimeter steel was coming
Am G
for the windshield of that Oldsmobile
F C C7
As the cop said, “Show your hands!”
F G C C7
I got a half tank of gas and if we run all the lights
F G C C7
We’ll slip across the border on the wrong side of right
F G Am Am/G F
And just like Butch and Sundance we’ll ride until the dawn
F Fm
Sipping whiskey, singing cowboy songs
C Em F G
On the Right Side of Wrong
Outro: C Em Dm G C
