Key: Ab major
Verse 1
G
C
Tore, I hope this letter
D
G
finds you well.
C
G
The floods have taken hold of us,
C
D
but my husband will not sell.
C
G
Your letters have all perished, the
C
Am
D
Bible has survived.
And
G
C
G
Jesus holds us in his hands
C
D
G
In a land where love abides
C
G
C
G
When you're forty years upon the land
C
D
G
The land becomes your soul
G
C
D
lamps and electric poles
C
G
All along the telegraph,
C
D
the song of the talking wire
C
D
G
Indians, the dying of their fires
D
G
Grandchildren lie in ross and wheat
D
G
and watch the trains roll by
G
Jesse
G
Rhine
John
Am
Barbara
A
D
Allen's ghost
A
Am
A
D
As they talk of hopping freight trains
A
Am
A
D
To the promised land, the coast
G
The
Larsons and the
C
G
Russells
C
D
G
Have fled the land of corn
To search for gold in
C
Hollywood
G
C
D
Where the worst of dreams are born
C
G
They leave behind their heritage,
Ireland
D
G
The gold they seek in
C
G
C
California is glitter mixed
D
G
with sand
American primitive men,
G
C
I seldom feel his loving hand,
G
D
American primitive man.
Outro 1
G
D
G
D
G
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ChordsC G D Am A
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