Waist Deep in the Big Muddy chords by
Kronos Quartet
Pete Seeger

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Key: C minor•

Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Cm Cm 3
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It was back in 1942,
I was a member of a good platoon
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We were on manoeuvres in Louisiana
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one night by the light of the moon
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The captain told us to ford a river,
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that's how it all begun
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G G 
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We were knee -deep in the big muddy,
but the big fool said to push
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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on
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Sergeant said, sir,
are you sure this is the best way
back to the base?
Sergeant, go on, I thought of this river
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about a mile above this place
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It'll be  a little slogging,
but just keep slogging,
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we'll soon be on dry ground
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G G 
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We were waist -deep in the big muddy
And the big fool said to push
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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on
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Sergeant said, sir, with all this equipment
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No man will be able to  swim
Sergeant, don't be a nervous nelly
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The captain said to him
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Eb Eb 6
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All we  need's a little determination
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Men, follow me, I'll lead on
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We were neck deep in the big muddy
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and the big fool said to push
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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on
Cm Cm 3
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All at  once the moon clouded over
we heard a gurgling cry
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A   few seconds later the
captain's helmet
was all that floated by
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Cm Cm 3
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Eb Eb 6
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The sergeant said, turn around men
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I'm in charge from now on
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And we had just made it
out of the Big Muddy
with the captain dead and gone
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We stripped and dived,
found his body stuck in the old quicksand
I guess he didn't know
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that the water was deeper
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than the place he'd once before been
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Another stream had joined
the Big Muddy
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Cm Cm 3
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G G 
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about a half mile from where we'd gone
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We were lucky to escape
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from the Big Muddy
when the big fool said,
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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Pusho!
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Well, I'm not gonna point an immoral,
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I'll leave that for yourself
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Maybe you're still walking,
you're still talking,
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you'd like to keep your health
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Eb Eb 6
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But every time I read the papers,
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Ab Ab 4
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G G 
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that old feeling comes on
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We're waist deep in the big muddy
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Cm Cm 3
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and the big fool says to push on
Waist deep in the big muddy
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and the big fool says to push on
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F F 
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Cm Cm 3
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Waist deep, neck deep, soon
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Cm Cm 3
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even the tall man will be over his head
Waist deep in the big muddy
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and the big fool says to push on
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G G 
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Cm Cm 3
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Ab Ab 4
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Ab Ab 4
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Cm Cm 3
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Waist Deep in the Big Muddy chords by
Kronos Quartet
Pete Seeger