Chords for Big Country Blues

_ _ _ _ _ _ Well I've been up the Mississippi [E] to the [Em] Manitoba line
I've been down [Am] stream to the Gulf of [Em] Mexico _ Followed [Am] the sun out of West California _ _
_ _ _ [B] And there just ain't no place [Am] left for me to [Em] go
_ _ _ _ Spent a lonesome month in Maine and a [E] year in Louisiana _ _
Packed my bags and [Am] hit the [Em] westward trail _ [Am] Rambled down through Texas till I came to El Paso _
_ _ [B] Spent a week in a stinking [Em] war-aged jail
Well _ _ _ _ _ I rambled through [Am] Nevada gambling most of my [Em] life away _
_ I headed north when I [Am] heard Dakota [Bm] call
Well [Am] I stayed until the northerners came rolling down the line
_ _ _ [B] I headed south when summer [Em] turned to fall
_ _ _ _ _ I've been north and east, [E] south where the cotton [Em] grows
_ And out in the west [Am] where the sun forever [Em] shines
[Am] Well I've been in my back for a dollar a day in a Texas sugar field _ _
_ [B] Labored at a [Am] [Em] Minnesota mine _
_ _ _ _ _ Well I've seen you hungry babies [E] scream, I've watched their [Em] mamas cry
I've seen a worn out prostitute beg for a dime
I've [Am] seen men come out of gutters ready to give their lives away _ _
[Bm] For a slug and a lousy bottle [Em] of rot gut wine _
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I've been up the Mississippi, the Manitoba line
_ _ Downstream to [Am] the Gulf of Mexico
[Em] _ _
_ [Am] Followed the sun out west to California _
_ _ [F#] And there just ain't no place [Em] left for me to go
Well _ _ _ [Bm] there just ain't no place left for [Em] me to go _ _ _ _ _
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