american rivers
american rivers

american rivers easy guitar chords by Tom Russell

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  • D

  • G

  • Bm

    2

  • A

  • C

  • D

  • G

  • Bm

    2

  • A

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    • Verse 1
    Ain't no 
    more cane 
    on 
    the Brazos 

    Yeah, 
    yeah yeah 

    It's 
    all been 
    ground 
    down 

    to 
    molasses 

    Yeah 
    yeah yeah 

    Verse 2

    I saw 
    a red 
    iron 
    sunsets 

    - From 
    a rust 
    iron 
    bridge 

    In 
    the Indian 
    country 

    –Of the 
    mocking
    bird 
    kid 

    I 
    saw the 
    moon 
    in 
    a boxcar 
    - Being 

    carried 
    as 
    freight 

    Through 
    62 winters 
    - Through 
    48 states 

    In an 
    old 
    Chinese 
    graveyard 

    - I slept 
    in the 
    weeds 

    When a 
    song 
    and a 
    story 

    - Were 
    all 
    a kid 
    needs 

    Hear the 
    rhymes 
    and the 
    rattles 

    - Of 
    those 
    runaway 
    trains 

    And the 
    songs 
    of the 
    cowboy 

    - And the 
    sound 
    of 
    the rain 

    Verse 3
    And it's 
    mom 
    I 
    miss 
    you 

    I 
    woke 
    up 
    and 
    screamed 

    American 
    rivers 
    - Roll 
    deep 

    through my 
    dreams 

    Col
    orado, 
    Yeah 
    Al
    leghany, 

    Shenandoah, 
    Susquehanny 

    And the 
    Wabash 
    and the 
    Hudson 

    and the brave 
    Rio 
    Grande 

    I 
    was a 
    kid 
    there 
    asleep 

    in the 
    sandy 
    old 
    water 

    Yeah 
    old 
    water 

    Interlude 1


    Verse 4
    We named 
    'em 
    for 

    Indians 
    - Our 
    guilt 
    to 
    forsake 

    The 
    Delaware 
    the Black
    foot 

    - The Flat
    head 
    the Snake 

    Now 
    they 
    roll 
    past 
    casinos 
    And old 

    hamburger 
    stands 

    They're 
    all 
    waving 
    farewell 

    - To the 
    kid 
    on 
    the 
    lamb 

    With 
    their 
    Jig 
    sawed 
    old 
    arteries 

    - So 
    clogged 
    and 
    defiled 

    No 
    open 
    heart 
    mir
    acle 
    - Is 

    gonna 
    turn 
    'em 
    back 
    wild 

    Past 
    towns 
    gone 
    to bankers 

    – Past 
    fields 
    gone 
    to seed 

    All 
    cut 
    up 
    and 
    carved 
    out 
    - So 

    divided 
    by 
    greed 

    And old 
    grandfather 
    cat
    fish 

    - With 
    his 
    whiskers 
    so 
    long 

    And his 
    life 
    in 
    a struggle 
    - Cuz 

    the 
    oxygen's gone 

    Verse 5
    Oh mom 
    I 
    miss 
    you 

    I 
    woke 
    up 
    and 
    screamed 

    These 
    American 
    rivers 
    - They 

    pois
    on 
    my 
    dreams 

    Col
    orado, 
    Alleghany, 
    Shenan
    doah, 

    Susquehanny 

    And the 
    Wa
    bash 
    and the 
    Hudson 

    and 
    the brave 
    Rio 
    Grande 

    I was 
    a kid 
    there 
    I 
    was asleep 

    in 
    the sandy 
    old 
    water 

    Yeah 
    old 
    water 

    Outro 1


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