American Rivers

C

              F           C
Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
      F     G     C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
              F                C
It’s all been ground down to molasses
F     G     C
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I saw a red iron sunset
From a rust iron bridge
              F
In the Indian country
                   C
Of the mockingbird kid

I saw the moon in a boxcar
Being carried as freight
                  F
Through sixty-two winters
                    C
Through forty-eight states

In an old Chinese graveyard
I slept in the weeds
                  F
When a song and a story
               C
Were all a kid needs

Hear the rhymes and the rattles
Of those runaway trains
                     F
And the songs of the cowboy
                     C
And the sound of the rain

And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"
I woke up and screamed
         F
American rivers
                     C
Roll deep through my dreams
         F               C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
      F           C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
        Am                         G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
        F                                  C
I was a kid there, asleep in the sandy old water
F         C  F     C
Yeah, old water, yeah

C  Bb  C  Bb     C

We named ‘em for Indians
Our guilt to forsake
                 F
The Delaware the Blackfoot
                 C
The Flathead the Snake

Now they roll past casinos
And old hamburger stands
                       F
They’re all waving farewell
                  C
To the kid on the land

With their jigsawed old arteries
So clogged and defiled
              F
No open heart miracle
                       C
Is gonna turn ’em back wild

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

And old grandfather catfish
With his whiskers so long
                  F
And his life in a struggle
                    C
'Cause the oxygen’s gone

"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
               F
These American rivers
               C
They poison my dreams
         F               C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
      F           C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
        Am                         G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
        F                                        C
I was a kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old water
F         C  F
Yeah, old water, yeah

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