Beaver Creek chords by George Hamilton IV
Verse 1
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Been a
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long time
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since I've been skinny dippin'
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I laid on the creek bank all day fishin'
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Just to watchin' the treetops bend
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Em
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When the summer wind would blow
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It's been a long time since
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I had muddy feet
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Bm
I stood half -naked in
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the summer heat
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And watched Johnny Jacob
Em
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drink three RCs in a row
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But from the way it looks,
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things have really changed
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To highway signs and supermarket chains
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I can't believe this is where me
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and Johnny used to play
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Look what they've done to Beaver Creek
Fish have all died,
the stream's dried up
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and it's hardly ankle deep
And all that's left is what I recall
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in my childhood memory
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Look what they've done to
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Beaver Creek
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Used to build new rabbit
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boxes every year
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It's been a long time since
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rabbits were here
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Bm
The factory on the edge of the hill
Em
drove them out of the woods
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The old chestnut tree on
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the edge of the bank
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They cut it down building
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that sewage tank
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I couldn't let it stand in
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Em
the way of pro gress
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F#m
I guess my generation has seen the last
Em
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Of mountain streams and
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crooked dirt paths
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The kind where me and Johnny Jacob
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used to run and laugh
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Look what they've done to Beaver Creek
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The fish have all died,
the stream's dried up
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and it's hardly ankle deep
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And all that's left is what I recall
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in my childhood memories
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A
Look what they've done
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to Beaver Creek
Em
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Look what they've
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done to Beaver Creek
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Em
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Look what they've
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done to Beaver Creek
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Em
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