Monogahela Sal chords by Pete Seeger

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 (D major) She was born in  (A major) an old Monason alley
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Her  (D major) ma and her pa they called her  (A major) Sal
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She grew up  (D major) to be the pride of the  (G major) valley
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A  (E minor)  (G major) typ (D major) ical Mononga (A major) hela gal
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 (D major) She wandered one  (A major) day by the  (D major) river,
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and she watched the Jason steaming  (A major) by.
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Her heart  (D major) gave a leap and a  (G major) quiver,
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 (E minor) as she caught  (D major) the handsome
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pilot's  (A major) rolling eye (D major) .
Now his name, you must know,
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 (A major) was Moat Stanley,
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 (D major) And he wore a fancy sporting coat.  (A major) 
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He was tall,  (D major) dark,
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and handsome and manly,  (G major) 
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The  (D major) slickest pilot ever  (A major) steered a  (D major) boat.
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Roll on, roll  (A major) on Monongahela,  (D major) 
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roll on to the Ohio,  (A major) 
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roll on  (D major) past Tallahassee,
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down  (G major) to the Mississip (E minor) pi,  (G major) 
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 (D major) flare up to the  (A major) Gulf of
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 (E minor) Mex  (A major) ico.  (D major)  (A major)  (E minor)  (A major)  (D major) 
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 (A major) Now  (E minor)  (A major)  (D major) Mote gave a  (A major) toot,
honest whistle,
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 (D major) And the Jason churned the
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water a hairless  (A major) turn,
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And  (D major) Sal, stepping light as a  (G major) thistle,
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 (E minor) Reached up  (D major) and took Mote
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 (A major) Stanley's hand in hers.
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 (D major) It was love, careless love,  (A major) by the river (D major) 
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It was love, careless love, by  (A major) the shore
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And I'm  (D major) sure the good Lord
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will for (G major) give her
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For  (E minor) she  (D major) never knew
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what love  (A major) was  (E minor) like before  (D major) 
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 (A major) He swore  (D major) that he al (A major) ways
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 (E minor) would  (A major) love her (D major) ,
As they locked through the
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old Emsworth dam.  (A major) 
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But that night  (D major) overboard he did shove  (G major) her,
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 (E minor) And  (G major) then  (D major) Moat Stanley
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took  (A major) it on the land.  (D major) 
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Well, no one could say  (A major) Sal was  (D major) sickly
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She didn't even take time out  (A major) to bawl
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But she  (D major) high -tailed it right down for civically
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 (G major) Slap (E minor)  (G major) pin'  (D major)  (A major) out  (D major) a
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 (A major) fast Australian crawl  (D major) 
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She hopped a fast freight  (A major) for Rochester (D major) 
And there was moat a
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-steaming close to shore  (A major) 
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From a yard  (D major) bull who tried to molest  (G major) her
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She  (E minor)  (G major) up  (D major) and swiped
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a great  (A major) big .44 floor.  (D major) 
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She raised up that big  (A major) shooting iron,  (D major) 
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and she fired six shots into moat.  (A major) 
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And  (D major) when she laid out that revolver (G major) ,
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she sure  (D major) messed up that
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fancy  (A major) sporting coat.  (D major) 
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Roll on, roll  (A major) among the gila
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 (D major) where the catfish and the carp left
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long ago  (A major) you used  (D major) to be so pure
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but now  (G major) you're just a sewer
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messing  (D major) up the Gulf  (A major) of Mexico