american rivers chords by
Tom Russell

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Key: D major•

Verse 1

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D

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Ain't no more cane on the Brazos

Yeah, yeah yeah

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G

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It's all been ground down

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Bm

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D

D

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to molasses

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G

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D

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A

A

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D

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Yeah yeah yeah

Verse 2

D

D

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I saw a red iron sunsets

- From a rust iron bridge

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G

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In the Indian country

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D

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–Of the mockingbird kid

I saw the moon in a boxcar - Being

carried as freight

G

G

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D

D

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Through 62 winters - Through 48 states

In an old Chinese graveyard

- I slept in the weeds

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When a song and a story

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D

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- Were all a kid needs

Hear the rhymes and the rattles

- Of those runaway trains

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And the songs of the cowboy

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D

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- And the sound of the rain

Verse 3

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D

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And it's mom I miss you

I woke up and screamed

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G

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American rivers - Roll deep

D

D

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through my dreams

G

G

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D

D

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Colorado, Yeah Alleghany,

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G

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D

D

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Shenandoah, Susquehanny

Bm

Bm

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And the Wabash and the Hudson

A

A

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and the brave Rio Grande

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G

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I was a kid there asleep

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in the sandy old water

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G

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Yeah old water

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G

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Interlude 1

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D

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C

C

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C

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Verse 4

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We named 'em for

Indians - Our guilt to forsake

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G

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The Delaware the Blackfoot

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D

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- The Flathead the Snake

Now they roll past casinos And old

hamburger stands

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G

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They're all waving farewell

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D

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- To the kid on the lamb

With their Jig sawed old arteries

- So clogged and defiled

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G

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No open heart miracle - Is

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D

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gonna turn 'em back wild

Past towns gone to bankers

– Past fields gone to seed

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G

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All cut up and carved out - So

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D

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divided by greed

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And old grandfather catfish

- With his whiskers so long

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G

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And his life in a struggle - Cuz

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D

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the oxygen's gone

Verse 5

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D

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Oh mom I miss you

I woke up and screamed

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G

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These American rivers - They

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poison my dreams

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G

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D

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Colorado, Alleghany, Shenandoah,

Susquehanny

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Bm

Bm

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And the Wa bash and the Hudson

A

A

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and the brave Rio Grande

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G

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I was a kid there I was asleep

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D

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in the sandy old water

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D

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Yeah old water

Outro 1

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