Seneca Creek original guitar chords by 
Charles Wesley Godwin 
Key: Bb minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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In the spring of nineteen forty nine
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That's when I crossed the county line
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It's there I saw in Seneca Creek
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A girl named Ruth who washed her feet
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I told her my name was RC Phares
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That I'd marry her with half a karat
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She said "I do, but no stone can reach
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the prettiest shine of this here creek"
Verse 2
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The mud was deep and the roads were wide
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We'd retreat and then retake the lines
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Korean winters had torn me down
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And killed all the boys from my hometown
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But I'm coming home, Ruth, my dear
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I got money in my pocket, don't you fear
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We'll build a life by Seneca Creek
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You'll have everything you'll ever need
Chorus 1
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Let's build a home by Seneca Creek
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And raise ourselves a family
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I'll work on the farm, you work the store
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We'll have everything we ever hoped for
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With the top of a mountain above our heads
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed
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Sene ca Creek
Solo 1
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[Pedal steel]
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Verse 3
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And sure enough, the hard times came
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You loved yours, I did the same
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But we made it through the win ter's cold
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And many summers young and old
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In '85 the creek did rise
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But it on ly took the other side
The Gandee, North Fork
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and South Branch too
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The house still stood that I built for you
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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In '94 when you got sick
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We'd make up trips for the hell of it
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Take my hand, Ruth, my dear
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I'll take you back to any year
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And now you lie on the hill up high
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Right beneath the mountain sky
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Seneca Creek sings below
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Atop the tree sit's a lonely crow
Chorus 2
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We built a home by Seneca Creek
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And raised ourselves a family
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I worked on the farm, you worked the store
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We had eve rything we'd ever hoped for
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With the top of a mountain above our heads
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And the roar of Seneca by the bed
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Sene ca Creek
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