Key: A major
Verse 1
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Oh, I'll never swim Kern River again
It was there that I met her
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I drifted up here with the wind
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but I'll never swim Kern River again
I grew up in an oil town,
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but my crusher never came in
The river was a boundary
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the swim swept her life away.
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Now I live on Lake Shasta,
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Lake Shasta is where I will stay.
There's the south of San Joaquin,
There's a place called Mount Whitney,
where the mighty Kern River
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comes down.
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but it's a mean piece of water, my friend,
and I may cross on the highway,
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but I'll never swim Kern River again.
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Oh, I'll never swim Kern River again.
It was there that I,
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And I may drown in the still water
Outro 1
current river again
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