Anna Olsen's Letter Home chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
Dear (C major) cousin
Tore, (G major) I hope this (C major) letter
finds (D major) you well. (G major)
The floods have taken (C major) hold of (G major) us,
but my hus (C major) band will not (D major) sell.
(C major) Your letters have all perished, (G major) the
(C major) Bible has (A minor) sur (D major) vived.
And
(G major) Jesus holds (C major) us in his hand (G major) s
In (C major) a land where (D major) love abides (G major)
When (C major) you're forty (G major) years upon (C major) the land (G major)
The (C major) land becomes (D major) your soul (G major)
We've seen candles gone to (C major) kerosene,
(G major) lamps (C major) and electric (D major) poles
All (C major) along the tele (G major) graph,
the (C major) song of the talking wire (D major)
The (G major) massacre of
(C major) Indians, the dying of (D major) their (G major) fires
(D major) Grandchildren lie in (G major) ross and wheat
and (D major) watch the trains roll (G major) by
They (D major) dream they'll see old
(G major) Jesse
James com (D major) ing through the
(G major) Rhine
They (A minor) sing about
John
(D major) Henry and
(A minor) Barbara
Allen's (A major) (D major) ghost
As they (A major) talk (A minor) of hopping (A major) freight (D major) trains
To the (A major) prom (A minor) ised land, (A major) the (D major) coast
The (G major)
Larsons and the
(C major) Russell (G major) s
Have (C major) fled the (D major) land of (G major) corn
To search for gold in
(C major) Hollywood
(G major) Where the (C major) worst of dreams are (D major) born
They (C major) leave behind their (G major) heritage,
their (C major) tools from
Ireland
(D major) (G major) The gold they seek in
(C major) California is (G major) (C major) glitter mixed
(D major) with (G major) sand
American primitive men,
American primitive land (C major)
(G major) I seldom feel his (C major) loving hand,
Amer (G major) ican primitive (D major) man.
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Anna Olsen's Letter Home
Tom Russell
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