American Rivers chords

CAPO: 2nd Fret

[INTRO]
[C]xxx

[VERSE 1]
Ain’t no more [F] canex on the [C] Brazosx
Yeah, [F] yeah,x [G] yeahx [C] xxx
It’s all been [F] groundx down to mo[C]lassesx
[F]Yeah,x [G] yeah,x [C] yeahx

[VERSE 2]

I saw a red iron sunset

From a rust iron bridge
In the Indian [F] countryx
Of the mockingbird [C] kidx

[VERSE 3]

I saw the moon in a boxcar

Being carried as freight
Through sixty-two [F] wintersx
Through forty-eight [C] statesx

[VERSE 4]

In an old Chinese graveyard

I slept in the weeds
When a song and a [F] storyx
Were all a kid [C] needsx

[VERSE 5]

Hear the rhymes and the rattles

Of those runaway trains
And the songs of the [F] cowboyx
And the sound of the [C] rainx

[CHORUS]

And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"

I woke up and screamed
American [F] riversx
Roll deep through my [C] dreamsx
It's Colo[F]rado,x yeah, Alle[C]ghenyx
Shenan[F]doah,x Susque[C]hannyx
And the [Am] Wabashx and the Hudson, the [G] bravex Rio Grande
I was a [F] kidx there, asleep in the sandy old [C] waterx
[F] Yeah,x old [C] watx [F] er,x ye [C] ahx

[INTERLUDE]
[C] xxx [Bb] xxxx [C] xxx [Bb] xxxx [C] xxx

[VERSE 6]

We named ‘em for Indians

Our guilt to forsake
The Delaware the [F] Blackfootx
The Flathead the [C] Snakex

[VERSE 7]

Now they roll past casinos

And old hamburger stands
They’re all waving fare[F]wellx
To the kid on the [C] landx

[VERSE 8]

With their jigsawed old arteries

So clogged and defiled
No open heart [F] miraclex
Is gonna turn ’em back [C] wildx

[VERSE 9]

Past towns gone to bankers

Past fields gone to seed
All cut up and [F] carvedx out
So divided by [C] greedx

[VERSE 10]

And old grandfather catfish

With his whiskers so long
And his life in a [F] strugglex
'Cause the oxygen’s [C] gonex

[CHORUS]

"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
These American [F] riversx
They poison my [C] dreamsx
It's Colo[F]rado,x yeah, Alle[C]ghenyx
Shenan[F]doah,x Susque[C]hannyx
And the [Am] Wabashx and the Hudson, the [G] bravex Rio Grande
I was a [F] kidx there, I was asleep in the sandy old [C] waterx
[F] Yeah,x old [C] watx [F] er,x yeah

[OUTRO]
[C] xxx [Bb] xxxx [C] xxx [Bb] xxxx [C] xxx