Black Waters chords by
Laurie Lewis

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Key: B major

Verse 1
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I come from the mountains,
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Kentucky's my home
Where the wild deer and the black
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Am Am 
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bear so lately did roam
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By the clear rushing waterfall
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the wild flowers dream
And through every dark valley
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there runs a clear stream
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Now there's scenes of
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destruction on every hand
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D D 
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And only black waters run down
through my land
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Verse 2

Sad scenes of destruction on every hand

Black waters,

black waters running down through my land

Verse 3
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Now the quail she's a pretty bird,
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she sings a sweet tone
In the roots of the tall timber she
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Am Am 
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nests with her young
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C C 
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Then the hillside explodes
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with the dynamites roar
And the voices of the small birds
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are heard here no more
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And the hillside comes a sliding
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so awful and grand
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D D 
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And the poisonous waters run
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down through my land
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Sad scenes

Verse 4

of destruction

on every hand

Black waters, black waters running

down through my land

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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In the rising of the springtime
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G G 
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we planted our corn
At the ending of the springtime
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we buried our son
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C C 
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And then yonder comes a nice man,
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he says everything's fine
My employer just requires
D D 
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a way to his mine
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And they tore down the mountain
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and covered my corn
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And the grave on the hillside
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is a mile deeper down
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And the man stands there smiling
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with his hat in his hand
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And we watch the black waters
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G G 
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running down through my land
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Sad scenes

Verse 6

of destruction

on every hand

Black waters, black waters running down

through my land

Interlude 2

Verse 7
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Well, I ain't got much money
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and not much of a home
I own my own land but my
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land's not my own
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G G 
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But if I had ten million
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G G 
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or somewhere there abouts
Well, I'd buy Perry County
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and I'd run 'em all out
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And I'd sit on the shore with
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my bait and my can
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And I'd watch the clear waters
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running down through my land

Verse 8
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Now wouldn't that be like
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the old promised land
Black waters,
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black waters no more in my land
Black waters, black waters

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