Friends Apickin - Current River Chords & Tabs
Friends Apickin - Current River Chords
Current River
Verse 1
A D A
When I was a child, my family would travel
A E A
Down to Southeast Missouri, where my parents where born
A D A
There's a backards old town thats oftn remembered
A E A
So many times at my memry's reward
Chorus
A D A
Daddy wont you take me back to old Shannon County
A E A
Down by the Current River where paradise lays
A D A
Sorry my son, but your too late in askin'
A E A
The government has already took it away
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(Fiddle/Harmonica Solo)
Verse 2
A D A
Sometimes we'll travel right down the Current River
A E A
To the old Bailey Ferry down at PowderMill Bridge
A D A
Where if you took the time to stop and to listen
A E A
You could hear the dogs runnin' up high on the ridge
Chorus and Solo
Verse 3
A D A
The govenment came and they took all our houses
A E A
They took all our homes and they took all our land
A D A
Now their gone and the land is forsaken
A E A
They wrote it all down as the progress of man
No Chorus, Verse 4
A D A
When I die let my ashes float down the Current River
A E A
Let my soul roll right up to Frank Roberts Land
A D A
I'll be half way to heaven with paradise a'waitin'
A E A
Five miles away from wherever I am
Chorus then solo to fade
