Everett Ruess chords by Dave Alvin

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Verse 1
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Am 
I was born Everett
Ruess
G 
I've been dead for sixty years
Am 
I was just a young boy in my twenties
The day I disappeared
G 

Verse 2
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Am 
Into the Grand Escalante Badlands
G 
Near the Utah and Arizona
Em 
Am 
line
D 
C 
And they never found my body, boys
G 
Or understood my mind

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Verse 3

I grew up in California

And I loved my family and my home

But I ran away to the High Sierra

Where I could live free and alone

Verse 4
C 
And folks said,
G 
Am 
G 
?he's just another wild kid
Em 
Am 
He?ll grow out of it in time?
D 
C 
But they never found my body, boys
G 
Or understood my mind

Verse 5
G 
Am 
I broke broncos with the cowboys
I sang healing songs
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with the Navajo
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I did the snake dance with the Hopi
G 
And I drew pictures everywhere I go
C 
Then I swapped

Verse 6
all my draw
G 
Am 
ings for provisions
G 
To get what I needed
Em 
Am 
to get by
D 
C 
And they never found my body, boys
G 
Am 
G 
Or un derstood my mind
Em 

Interlude 1

Verse 7
Am 
Well I hate your crowded cities
G 
With the sad and hopeless mobs
Am 
And I hate your grand cathedrals
Where you try to trap God
G 

Verse 8
C 
G 
?Cause I know God is here
Am 
in the canyons
G 
With the rattlesnakes and the pinon
Em 
Am 
pines
D 
C 
And they never found my body, boys
G 
Am 
G 
Or understood my mind

Verse 9
G 
Am 
They say I was killed by a drifter
G 
Or I froze to death in the snow
D 
Am 
Maybe mauled by a wildcat
Or I'm livin? down in Mexico
G 

Verse 10
C 
But my end,
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Am 
it doesn't really matter
G 
All that counts is how you live
Em 
Am 
your life
D 
C 
And they never found my body, boys
G 
Or understood my mind

Verse 11
C 
But you give your dreams
Am 
away as you get older
G 
Em 
And oh but I never gave up
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mine
D 
And they'll never find my body,
C 
boys
G 
Or understand my mind