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Columbia's Waters easy guitar chords by
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie

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Intro 1
D
G
D
G
D
Bb

D

Verse 1
D

"Good Morning,

Mister Sunshine!"
G

"Good morning, Man!" I'm just a stranger,
D

travelin' 'cross y'r land;

Do y' need a good workhand

On your big Grand Coulee dam?
Verse 2
D

I'd like to settle down but I'm forced

to ramble all o' my time,
G

I'd like to settle down with this
D

wife and kids of mine;
A

But a place to settle down my family
D

Is a pretty hard place to find!
Verse 3
D

I like to work. I work every time I can!
G

I got a callous in the palms of both
D

o' my hands!

This ramblin' around from town to town
A
D

Goes hard on a family man!
Verse 4
D

I said I like to work,

I don't like to beg and steal!
G

The harder I'm a workin' the
D

better it makes me feel!
A

But my wife and kid get juberous
Bb
A
D

Everytime they miss a meal!
Verse 5
D

I'm a hardrock man,

I was born in a hardrock place!
G

Back in my home place I was
D

a man of high degree!

Nobody with a triphammer
A
D

Can knock as big a hole as me.
Verse 6
D

This Columbia River
G

Rolls right down this line;

Columbia's waters taste like
D

sparklin' wine;
A

Dustbowl waters taste like
D

picklin' brine.
Verse 7
D

The money that I draw from

workin' at your Coullee dam;
G

My wife will meet me at the kitchen door stretchin'
D

out her hand;
A

She'll make a little down payment
D
A
Bb
D

On our forty acre tract of land.
Verse 8
D

We'll work along this river, I'll

sing from sun to sun;
G

I'll walk along this grass and listen
D
A

to the factory hum;
D

Look what I've done gone and done.
Verse 9
D

Take some sow from off this mountain,

mix it with some wind and rain!
G

Take some metal from yer mountain,
D

melt it up again;

Stir it up with powers from Coullee's dam,
Bb

And you've got a big
D

sabre jet plane.
Verse 10
D

Take some water from this valley,

mix it up with snow;
G

Take my ramblin' family
D

rollin' down this road;
A

Mix it up with sunshine

And, man, you ought to see the green
D

things grow!
Outro 1
D
G
D
D

A
D
D

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