american rivers chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
(D major) Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
Yeah, yeah yeah
It's all been (G major) ground (D major) down
to molasses (B minor) (D major)
(G major) Yeah (D major) (A major) (D major) yeah yeah
Verse 2
(D major)
I saw a red iron sunsets
- From a rust iron bridge
In the Indian country (G major)
–Of the mocking (D major) bird kid
I saw the moon in a boxcar - Being
carried as freight
Through (G major) 62 winters - Through (D major) 48 states
In an old Chinese graveyard
- I slept in the weeds
When a song and a (G major) story
- Were all a kid (D major) needs
Hear the rhymes and the rattles
- Of those runaway trains
And the songs of the (G major) cowboy
- And the sound (D major) of the rain
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Verse 3
And it's mom I miss (D major) you
I woke up and screamed
American rivers (G major) - Roll deep
through my (D major) dreams
Col (G major) orado, Yeah Alleghany, (D major)
Shenandoah, (G major) (D major) Susquehanny
And the (B minor) Wabash and the Hudson
and the brave (A major) Rio Grande
I was a (G major) kid there asleep
in the sandy old (D major) water
(G major) Yeah old (D major) water
(G major)
Interlude 1
(D major) (C major) (D major) (C major) (G major) (C major) (D major) (C major) (D major)
Verse 4
We named 'em for (D major)
Indians - Our guilt to forsake
The Delaware the Black (G major) foot
- The Flat (D major) head the Snake
Now they roll past casinos And old
hamburger stands
They're all waving farewell (G major)
- To the kid (D major) on the lamb
With their Jig sawed old arteries
- So clogged and defiled
No open heart mir (G major) acle - Is
gonna turn 'em back (D major) wild
Past towns gone to bankers
– Past fields gone to seed
All cut up and (G major) carved out - So
divided (D major) by greed
And old grandfather (G major) cat (D major) fish
- With his whiskers so long
And his life in a struggle (G major) - Cuz
the (D major) oxygen's gone
Verse 5
Oh mom I miss (D major) you
I woke up and screamed
These American (G major) rivers - They
pois (D major) on my dreams
Col (G major) orado, Alleghany, (D major) Shenan (G major) doah,
Susquehanny
(D major) And the (B minor) Wa bash and the Hudson
and the brave (A major) Rio Grande
I was (G major) a kid there I was asleep
in the sandy (D major) old water
(G major) Yeah old (D major) water
Outro 1
(G major) (D major) (C major) (D major) (C major) (C major) (D major) (D major)
american rivers
Tom Russell
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