Everett Ruess chords by
Dave Alvin

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Verse 1
A A 
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Bm Bm 2
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I was born Everett
Ruess
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I've been dead for sixty years
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I was just a young boy in my twenties
The day I disappeared
A A 
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Verse 2
D D 
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Bm Bm 2
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Into the Grand Escalante Badlands
A A 
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Near the Utah and Arizona
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Bm Bm 2
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line
E E 
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D D 
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And they never found my body, boys
A A 
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Verse 3
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I grew up in California
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And I loved my family and my home
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But I ran away to the High Sierra
Where I could live free and alone
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Verse 4
D D 
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And folks said,
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Bm Bm 2
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?he's just another wild kid
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He?ll grow out of it in time?
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D D 
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But they never found my body, boys
A A 
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Verse 5
A A 
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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
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And I drew pictures everywhere I  go
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Then I swapped

Verse 6
all my draw
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ings for provisions
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To get what I needed
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to get by
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D D 
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And they never found my body, boys
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Bm Bm 2
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A A 
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Or un derstood my mind
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Interlude 1

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Verse 7
Bm Bm 2
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Well I hate your crowded cities
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With the sad and hopeless mobs
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And I hate your grand cathedrals
Where you try to trap God
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Verse 8
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A A 
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?Cause I know God is here
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in the canyons
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With the rattlesnakes and the pinon
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pines
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D D 
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And they never found my body, boys
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A A 
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Verse 9
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They say I was killed by a drifter
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Or I froze to death in the snow
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Maybe mauled by a wildcat
Or I'm livin? down in Mexico
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Verse 10
D D 
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But my end,
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it doesn't really matter
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All that counts is how you live
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your  life
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D D 
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And they never found my body, boys
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Verse 11
D D 
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But you give your dreams
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away as you get older
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And oh but I never gave up
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mine
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And they'll never find my body,
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boys
A A 
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