american rivers Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]Ain't no more cane on the Brazos
Yeah, yeah yeah
It's all been [G]ground [D]down
to [Bm]molasses[D]
[G]Yeah [D]yea[A]h y[D]eah

[Verse 2]
[D]
I saw a red iron sunsets
- From a rust iron bridge
In the Indian [G]country
–Of the mocking[D]bird kid
I saw the moon in a boxcar - Being
carried as freight
Through [G]62 winters - Through [D]48 states
In an old Chinese graveyard
- I slept in the weeds
When a song and a [G]story
- Were all [D]a kid needs
Hear the rhymes and the rattles
- Of those runaway trains
And the songs of the [G]cowboy
- And the sound [D]of the rain

[Verse 3]
And it's mom I miss [D]you
I woke up and screamed
American [G]rivers - Roll deep
through my [D]dreams
Col[G]orado, Yeah Al[D]leghany,
[G]Shenandoah, [D]Susquehanny
And the [Bm]Wabash and the Hudson
[A]and the brave Rio Grande
I was a [G]kid there asleep
in the sandy old [D]water
[G]Yeah old [D]water
[G]

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 4]
We named 'em [D]for
Indians - Our guilt to forsake
The Delaware [G]the Blackfoot
- The Flat[D]head the Snake
Now they roll past casinos And old
hamburger stands
They're all waving [G]farewell
- To the kid [D]on the lamb
With their Jig sawed old arteries
- So clogged and defiled
No open heart mir[G]acle - Is
gonna turn 'em back [D]wild
Past towns gone to bankers
– Past fields gone to seed
All cut up and [G]carved out - So
divided [D]by greed
And old grandfather [G]cat[D] fish
- With his whiskers so long
And his life in [G]a struggle - Cuz
[D]the oxygen's gone

[Verse 5]
Oh mom I [D]miss you
I woke up and screamed
These American [G]rivers - They
pois[D]on my dreams
Col[G]orado, [D]Alleghany, Shenan[G]doah,
Susquehanny
[D]And the W[Bm]a bash and the Hudson
and [A]the brave Rio Grande
I was [G]a kid there I was asleep
in the sandy [D]old water
[G]Yeah old [D]water

[Outro 1]
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