American Rivers chords

CAPO: 2nd Fret

[INTRO]
[C]

[VERSE 1]
Ain’t no more [F]cane on the [C]Brazos
Yeah, [F]yeah, [G]yeah [C]
It’s all been [F]ground down to mo[C]lasses
[F]Yeah, [G]yeah, [C]yeah

[VERSE 2]

I saw a red iron sunset

From a rust iron bridge
In the Indian [F]country
Of the mockingbird [C]kid

[VERSE 3]

I saw the moon in a boxcar

Being carried as freight
Through sixty-two [F]winters
Through forty-eight [C]states

[VERSE 4]

In an old Chinese graveyard

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

[VERSE 5]

Hear the rhymes and the rattles

Of those runaway trains
And the songs of the [F]cowboy
And the sound of the [C]rain

[CHORUS]

And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"

I woke up and screamed
American [F]rivers
Roll deep through my [C]dreams
It's Colo[F]rado, yeah, Alle[C]gheny
Shenan[F]doah, Susque[C]hanny
And the [Am]Wabash and the Hudson, the [G]brave Rio Grande
I was a [F]kid there, asleep in the sandy old [C]water
[F]Yeah, old [C]wat[F]er, ye[C]ah

[INTERLUDE]
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[VERSE 6]

We named ‘em for Indians

Our guilt to forsake
The Delaware the [F]Blackfoot
The Flathead the [C]Snake

[VERSE 7]

Now they roll past casinos

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

[VERSE 8]

With their jigsawed old arteries

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

[VERSE 9]

Past towns gone to bankers

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

[VERSE 10]

And old grandfather catfish

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

[CHORUS]

"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
These American [F]rivers
They poison my [C]dreams
It's Colo[F]rado, yeah, Alle[C]gheny
Shenan[F]doah, Susque[C]hanny
And the [Am]Wabash and the Hudson, the [G]brave Rio Grande
I was a [F]kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old [C]water
[F]Yeah, old [C]wat[F]er, yeah

[OUTRO]
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