Big River chords by Jon Langford, The Pine Valley Cosmonauts

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Verse 1
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Well I
taught the weeping willow
how to cry
I showed the clouds
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how to cover up a clear blue sky
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Tears of grass without a woman
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are gonna flood you big river
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I'm gonna sit right here until
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I die
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Well, I met her accidentally
in St. Paul, Minnesota
It tore me up every time
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I heard her draw, southern draw
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Hurt my dream,
went back downstream,
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Kabob, Minn -David -Borg
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I'll follow you big river when
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you call
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Well, he took me to St. Louis,
later on down the river
Off her later said she's been here,
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but she's gone, boy, she's gone
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Lost her trail in Memphis,
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where she walked on up the bluff
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Raised a  few eyebrows,
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then went on down the log
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Verse 2

Well buddy,

I'm down about on Rouge,

River Queen, rollin' on.

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Verse 3

Take that woman down to New Or leans,

New Orleans.

Lord, I had enough,

throw my blues down in the Gulf.

She loves you bigger,

River, more than me.

Verse 4
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I taught the weeping willow
how to cry, cry, cry
Showed the clouds
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how to cover up a clear blue sky
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Tears of crap for that woman
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are gonna flood you big river
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And  I'm gonna sit right here until I die
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