Seneca Creek Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Am][C][C][G][G]
[Am][Am][C][C][G][G]
[Am][Am][Am][Am]

[Verse 1]
In the [Am]spring of nine[G]teen forty [C]nine
That's [G]when I crossed the county [Am]line
It's there I saw [G]in Sene[C]ca Creek
A [G]girl named Ruth who washed her [Am]feet
I told her my name was [G]RC [C]Phares
That I'd [G]marry her with half a [Am]karat
She said "I do, but no [G]stone [C]can reach
the pretti[G]est shine of this here [Am]creek"

[Verse 2]
The [Am]mud was deep and the r[G]oads were [C]wide
We'd re[G]treat and then retake the [Am]lines
Korean winters had [G]torn me [C]down
And killed [G]all the boys from my home[Am]town
But I'm coming home, [G]Ruth, my [C]dear
I got [G]money in my pocket, don't you [Am]fear
We'll build a life by [G]Seneca [C]Creek
You'll have [G]everything you'll ever [Am]need

[Chorus 1]
Let's [C]build a home by [G]Sene[F]ca Creek
And [C]raise ourselves a [G]fami[Am]ly
I'll [C]work on the farm, you [G]work the [F]store
We'll have [C]everything we [G]ever [Am]hoped for
With the [C]top of a mountain a[G]bove our [F]heads
And the [C]roar of Seneca [G]by the [Am]bed
[G]Sene[C]ca [G]Creek[C][G]

[Solo 1]
[Am][Pedal [Am]steel][C][C][G][G]
[Am][Am][C][C][G][G]
[Am][Am][Am][Am]

[Verse 3]
And [Am]sure enough, the [G]hard [C]times came
[G]You loved yours, I did the [Am]same
But we made it through the [G]winter's [C]cold
And [G]many summers young and [Am]old
In '85 the [G]creek did [C]rise
But it [G]on ly took the other [Am]side
The Gandee, North Fork
and [G]South [C]Branch too
The [G]house still stood that I built [Am]for you

[Interlude 1]
[Am][Am][C][C]
[G][G][Am][Am]

[Verse 4]
In [Am]'94 when [G]you [C]got sick
We'd [G]make up trips for the hell of [Am]it
Take my hand, [G]Ruth, [C]my dear
I'll [G]take you back to any [Am]year
And now you lie on the [G]hill up [C]high
[G]Right beneath the mountain [Am]sky
Seneca Creek [G]sings be[C]low
A[G]top the tree sit's a lone[Am]ly crow

[Chorus 2]
We [C]built a home by [G]Sene[F]ca Creek
And [C]raised ourselves a [G]fami[Am]ly
I [C]worked on the farm, you [G]worked the [F]store
We had [C]everything we'd [G]ever [Am]hoped for
With the [C]top of a mountain a[G]bove our [F]heads
And the [C]roar of Seneca [G]by the [Am]bed
[G]Sene[C]ca Creek