arkansas chords by Wilburn Brothers

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Though the brambles
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took the cabin I was born in
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And the briars reclaimed the
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fields I  used to plow
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There's a yearning in
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my heart to be goin'
To that 40 -acre patch
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God sowed in sprouts
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Arkansas, are your rivers still flowin'?
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Is your cotton growin' white as snow?
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Are the squirrels still a -barkin'
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up on old
Crowley's
Ridge?
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Has the girl I was sparkin' gone and
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Am 
burned another bridge?
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Arkansas
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Arkansas, mm -mm -mm, mm -mm -mm,
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mm -mm  -mm, mm -mm -mm
I have known the troubles
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I was born to know
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I have wanted things a poor
man's born to want
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And in all my dreams and
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memories I go running
Through the fields of
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Arkansas from which I sprung
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Arkansas, are your rivers still flowing?
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Is your cotton growing, white as snow?
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Do the young men still piddle with
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the thought of growing rich
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And slowly turn to old folks
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Am 
sittin' whittlin' on a stick?
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Arkansas,
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Arkansas, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo!