Columbia's Waters chords by
Woody Guthrie

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Key: D major

Intro 1

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Verse 1
D D 
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"Good Morning,
Mister Sunshine!"
G G 
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"Good morning, Man!" I'm just a stranger,
D D 
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travelin' 'cross y'r land;
Do y' need a good workhand
On your big Grand Coulee dam?

Verse 2
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I'd like to settle down but I'm forced
to ramble all o' my time,
G G 
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I'd like to settle down with this
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wife and kids of mine;
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But a place to settle down my family
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Is a pretty hard place to find!

Verse 3
D D 
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I like to work. I work every time I can!
G G 
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I got a callous in the palms of both
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o' my hands!
This ramblin' around from town to town
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D D 
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Goes hard on a family man!

Verse 4
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I said I like to work,
I don't like to beg and steal!
G G 
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The harder I'm a workin' the
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better it makes me feel!
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But my wife and kid get juberous
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A A 
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D D 
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Everytime they miss a meal!

Verse 5
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I'm a hardrock man,
I was born in a hardrock place!
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Back in my home place I was
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a man of high degree!
Nobody with a triphammer
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Can knock as big a hole as me.

Verse 6
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This Columbia River
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Rolls right down this line;
Columbia's waters taste like
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sparklin' wine;
A A 
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Dustbowl waters taste like
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picklin' brine.

Verse 7
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The money that I draw from
workin' at your Coullee dam;
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My wife will meet me at the kitchen door stretchin'
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out her hand;
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She'll make a little down payment
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A A 
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On our forty acre tract of land.

Verse 8
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We'll work along this river, I'll
sing from sun to sun;
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I'll walk along this grass and listen
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A A 
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to the factory hum;
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Look what I've done gone and done.

Verse 9
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Take some sow from off this mountain,
mix it with some wind and rain!
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Take some metal from yer mountain,
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melt it up again;
Stir it up with powers from Coullee's dam,
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And you've got a big
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sabre jet plane.

Verse 10
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Take some water from this valley,
mix it up with snow;
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Take my ramblin' family
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rollin' down this road;
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Mix it up with sunshine
And, man, you ought to see the green
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things grow!