America – Horse With No Name

Horse with no name is a great guitar song and it's actually really easy to play. There are only two chords in the entire song and the strumming pattern is a basic 8th note strumming pattern. The only tricky part is making sure you strum harder (louder) on the 2 and 4 beats.

Strumming Pattern:
>                      >
1   +     2   +    3   +    4 + accent the 2 & 4 beat
D   U   D   U   D   U   D   U    

Chords:
Em: 0220000   D6/9: 200200

Intro: Em  D6/9  x2

Em D6/9
On the first part of the journey
Em D6/9
I was lookin at all the life
Em D6/9
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
Em D6/9
There were sand and hills and rings

Em D6/9
The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
Em D6/9
and the sky with no clouds
Em D6/9
the heat was hot and the ground was dry
Em D6/9
but the air was full of sound

Chorus:

Em D6/9
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
Em D6/9
it felt good to be out of the rain
Em D6/9
in the desert you can remember your name
Em D6/9
'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
Em D6/9 Em D6/9
la la la    lalalala  la la   la la la

Verse:
After two days in the desert sun

my skin began to turn red

After three days in the desert fun

I was looking at a river bed

And the story it told of a river that flowed

made me sad to think it was dead

Chorus:
I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

it felt good to be out of the rain

in the desert you can remember your name

'cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

la la la    lalalala  la la   la la la

After nine days I let the horse run free

'cause the desert had turned to sea

there were plants and birds and rocks and things

there were sand and hills and rings

The ocean is a desert with its life underground

and the perfect disguise above

Under the cities lies a heart made of ground

but the humans will give no love

More Free Sheet Music from Horse With No Name Guitar Chords

This file is the author's own work and represents her interpretation of this song.
It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.