Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards chords by Tom Russell
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Verse 1
(G major) Old Man (C major) River, that (G major) old man river (C major) ,
he just (B minor) keeps (A minor) rollin' along (G major) Mississippi River runnin' backward,
earth (A minor) quakes shook the land
It (D major) happened down here in 1912
It's (C major) happening here again (G major)
Feast and famine, y 'all,
fire and flood
Abomination (A minor) s, you understood
(D major) Don't need no Old Testament
prophet to tell me
We ain't (C major) livin' in the promised land
(G major) Everybody (D major) sing
(G major) Glow, Gabriel, glow
Yeah, (A minor) glow that ragtime jazz
Judge (B minor) Monday comin' down here, (E minor) y 'all
In the (F major) land of the (C major) reservataires (G major)
I saw a carpet sweeper
Microwave ovens,
I saw (A minor) busted down television screens
Empty (D major) TV evangelist cats
With their (C major) hair all slicked
up with grill cream (G major)
Now the gospel news, truly real bad news
No need to in (A minor) vent all the
doom and gloom
It's a (D major) one -legged race to the liquor store
It's a (C major) hop, skipping,
jumping to the (G major) tune
Everybody sing
(D major) Glow, (G major) get real glow
Yeah, blow (A minor) that ragtime jazz
(B minor) Judgement day is coming down here, (E minor) y 'all
In the (F major) land of the (C major) rest of town (G major)
(B flat major) Steamboat whistle blowing
underwa (A minor) ter
Everything is (G major) backwards
and upside down
Baby (B flat major) Moses in the (A minor) bushes
Paddling (D major) sideways to higher ground,
yeah (E minor) (C major) (E minor) (C major) (E minor) (C major) (D major) (C major)
(B minor)
(A minor) Old (G major) ladies gamblin' inside
riverboat casinos
Whirlpools (A minor) swallowin' them down
Insur (D major) ance executives and full
-of -brush salesmen
Bush (C major) wack tryin' to leave town (G major)
But their lifeboats went backwards
up the Mississippi River
Through the (A minor) ancient Missouri South
Up through (D major) Iowa, Minnesota
Into the (C major) hands of a righteous God
(G major) Everybody sing (D major)
(G major) Blow, Gabriel, blow
Blow (A minor) that ragtime jazz
Judge (B minor) ment Day coming down here, (E minor) y 'all
On the (F major) land of the (C major) resplendent
(G major) Everybody sing, blow, Gabriel, blow
Blow it out now
Blow (A minor) that ragtime jazz
(B minor) Judgement Day coming down (E minor) here, y 'all
On the (F major) land of the (C major) resplendent (G major)
In the (F major) land of the (C major) resplendent
(G major) In the (F major) land of the (C major) razortels, (G major)
In the land (F major) of the razortels.
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Mississippi River Runnin' Backwards
Tom Russell
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