Rivers Run From Many Waters chords by Owen Temple

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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My Great Grandfather
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was a rake and a rambler
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but not a good gambler
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Bet away a fortune,
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and lost a family business
Deep in East Texas,
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he died with no witness
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The son of a son, the father of fathers
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Rivers run for many waters
My grandfather could be
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called a freethinker,
a poet, a painter,
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a pretty heavy drinker
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He'd show me his workshop on Galveston Island,
we'd go watch the ocean,
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he was a kind man
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A son of the sun, a father of fathers,
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rivers run up the many wa
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My father tells me that he's born again
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He says he's not lonely,
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cause Je sus is a good friend
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Dad comes to visit, and we get to talking
Get past the tension
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when he first walks in
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A son of a son, a father of fathers
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Rivers run from any water
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I can hear him when he wakes up,
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and I fix his breakfast
Take him on school days,
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and help him to get dressed
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Every day he's bigger,
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learning all that he can
Says he'll be a daddy
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when he's a grown man
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A son of a son, a father of fathers
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Rivers run from many waters
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A son of the sun, father of fathers
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