(A) Five Feet High And Rising (B) Come Along And Ride This Train chords by Johnny Cash
Verse 1
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Come along and ride this train.
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C
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Come along and ride this train.
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Across the mountains,
prairies, reservations,
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rivers, levees, plains.
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F
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Come along and ride this train.
C
Ride this train to Mississippi County,
Arkansas.
G
That's my country there.
C
And you see that old levee there by
the Mississippi River?
It's built to hold back the
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floodwaters of Oman River
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when it gets on a rampage.
C
And it gets on a rampage
like that winter night
when I was a little bitty boy.
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It had been raining day and night
C
for about three weeks
and all the old folks kept saying,
if the rain keeps falling,
it's gonna bust that levee
G
C
and it's gonna come right
over our land.
Now where was that little boy
that stuck his finger in the
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dike in Holland
C
that time when we really
needed him, right?
the levee broke and the water covered the
black land of Mississippi County Arkansas
and come right up to our doorstep
G
and I woke up the next morning
heard my daddy say,
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G
how high is the water mama?
Two feet high and rising.
How high is the water papa?
She said it's two feet high and rising.
We can make it to the road
in a homemade boat.
C
That's the only thing we
got left to the float.
D
It's already over all the wheat and oats,
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two feet high and rising.
How high is the water, Mama?
Three feet high and rising.
How high is the water, Papa?
She said it's three feet high and rising.
Well, the hives are gone, I lost my bees,
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chickens are sleeping in
the willow trees,
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cows and water have passed the mease,
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C
three feet high and rising.
How high's the water, mama?
Four feet high and rising
How high's the water, papa?
She said it's four feet high and rising
Hey, come look through the window pane
F
The bus is coming,
gonna take us to the train
G
Looks like we'll be blessed
with a little more rain
C
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Four feet high and rising
How high's the water, mama?
Five feet high and rising
How high's the water, Papa?
She said it's five feet high and rising.
Well, the rails have washed out
north of town.
G
Gotta head for higher ground.
A
Can't come back till the
water goes down.
D
Five feet high and rising.
A
F#m
Well, it's five feet high and rising.
Outro 1
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(A) Five Feet High And Rising (B) Come Along And Ride This Train
Johnny Cash
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