Shaking out the snow chords by Nanci Griffith

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Verse 1
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 (C major)  (F major)  (C major) Snowing,
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through South Dakota  (F major) I once  (C major) drove,
With the wife of my best pal,
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Who cloaks her heart  (F major) from cold with gold.
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It was  (C major) well into the winter,
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Of December  (F major) in the cold.  (C major) 
Off to see Mount Rushmore,
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 (F major) Staring through the snow.  (C major) 
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And to gamble  (A minor) with the boys  (F major) of
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Deadwood  (G major) as we drove.
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 (C major) 

Verse 2
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Snow (G major) ing, I am shaking out the snow.  (C major) 
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Oh, the cold  (F major) that is within my  (G major) heart,
I'm gonna shake out
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all that snow.  (C major) 
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 (F major) Riding years ago,  (G major) 
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Through the South Dakota road (C major) s.
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When the laughter  (F major) could thaw  (G major) Enderby,
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And shake me from the snow.  (C major) 
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 (F major) Like a hurricane through Flor (C major) ida,
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 (G major)  (A minor)  (G major) 
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I'll shake  (F major) out all  (G major) this
snow.
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 (C major)  (F major)  (C major) 

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Verse 3
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Snowing, one Christmas morn'  (F major) 
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when I was four.  (C major)  (F major) 
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 (C major) My brother told me it was warm,
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So a  (F major) swimsuit I adorned.  (C major) 
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 (F major) Then he sen (C major) t me to the weather,
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And behind  (F major) me locked the door (C major) s.
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 (F major)  (C major) A four year old in a swim suit,
And brand new plastic skates.
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 (A minor) Out into the snow  (F major) to catch this cold,
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 (G major) I cannot shake.
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 (C major) 

Verse 4
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Snow (G major) ing, I am shaking out the snow.  (C major) 
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Oh, the cold  (F major) that is within  (G major) my heart,
I'm gonna shake out all
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that snow.  (C major)  (F major) 
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Riding years ago,  (G major) 
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Through the South Dakota road (C major) s.
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 (F major) When the laughter could thaw  (G major) Enderby,
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And shake me from the snow.  (C major) 
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Like a  (F major) hurricane through Flor (C major) ida,
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 (G major)  (A minor)  (C major) 
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I'll shake  (F major) out all  (G major) this snow.
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 (C major) 

Verse 5
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Snowing, yeah, it snows  (F major) in Tennessee.  (C major) 
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 (F major) The  (C major) place where I now make my life.
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Is still  (F major) snowing down on  (C major) me.  (F major)  (C major) 
I'd prefer Antarctica,
Perhaps the land of Enderby.
Where the weather is my heart,
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And I'm closer  (F major) to the sea.  (C major) 
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Since I cannot  (A minor) ever seem  (F major) to shake,
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The snow  (G major) out of me.
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 (C major) 

Verse 6
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Snow (G major) ing, I am shaking out the snow.  (C major) 
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Oh, the cold  (F major) that is within  (G major) my heart,
I'm gonna shake out
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all that snow.  (C major) 
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Riding  (F major) years ago,  (G major) 
Through the South
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Dakota road (C major) s.
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When the laughter  (F major) could thaw  (G major) Enderby,
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And shake me from the snow.  (C major) 
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Like a hurricane  (F major) through Flor (C major) ida,
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 (G major)  (A minor) 
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 (C major) I'll shake  (F major) out all  (G major) this snow.
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 (C major) 

Verse 7
And all across the states you see,
The tractors and the ploughs.
Clearing out the roads,
And the bridges north and south.
Something they did learn,
And I just don't seem to know,
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How to clear  (A minor) a passage,  (F major) 
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And shake  (G major) out all the snow.