Chords for Blue Highway - Before The Cold Wind Blows

[F] [N] Every time we would play the Fairview Ruritan, which we played for many years,
may have seen several of you there, I'm sure we did over the years.
_ Houston would come up and play with us and [Em] that's when we met him [Ab] there.
And every time he would get up and he was always [A] _ just so
enthusiastic about the music [Ab] and it's one of the things we loved about him.
So we're just really proud to be [F] here. _ _
[Cm] [Dm] This is a song Wayne wrote on our very first record. _ _
[C] It's called Before the Cold Winds Blow. _ _ _
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ The weather finally broke in _ the [Bb] middle of [F] April.
_ _ _ Jacob [Gm] loaded up his [Bb] wagon _ _ with last [C] year's fun.
_ _ We'd have to make [F] a trip, _ _ _ _ [C] it would [Bb] be too [F] risky.
_ _ _ For his pretty [Bb] wife, Sarah, and the [C] unborn child,
the [F] fairies were in the ground.
_ _ Took three weeks to reach the Mississippi [Bb] _
[F] River.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] And he turned _ _ _ south, brought me home,
[C] me and _ my boy [F] from the mountains.
It _ was easy [E] to get [F] caught up _ _ in the [Bb] sights and
the sounds of the city [C] and the things he'd never [F] _ seen.
_ And the [Bb] river rolls _ on like an [F] endless _ river.
_ The sunlight [Bb] _
_ glistens on [F] the rocks below.
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ He can hear [Bb] her _ _ [C] voice [F] in the rippling water,
_ _ saying [C] please [Bb] be home [C] _ _ before the cold [F] winds blow. _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ He fell in _ _ _ with a [Cm] bad [Bb] _
[F] companion, _ _ _ said give me [Bb] all your money _ or
I'll [C] take your life, _ _ _ but Jacob [F] drew his bow and
said can it less [Bb] than a [F] heartbeat?
_ _ _ _ A stranger [Bb] laid dead on the floor [C] and someone had to pay [F] the price.
_ _ _ After three long years _ _ in [Bb] Louisiana _ [F] prison,
_ _ _ he stands [Bb] on the _ hill _ that overlooks [C] his [G] farm.
_ _ _ With his woman [F] by his side, _ _ [A] he thanks God for [Bb] his [F] blessing. _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ Most of [Bb] all for the [C] bond that child was to him in [F] his arms. _ _
And the river [Bb] rolls _ _ on like an [F] endless _ river. _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] The sunlight _ glistens on the rocks [Cm] below.
_ _ [C] _ He can hear [Bb] her _ _ [C] voice in the [F] rippling water,
_ _ _ saying [Bb] please be _ [C] home before the cold [F] winds blow.
_ _ He can hear her [Bb] _ _ _ [C] voice in [F] the rippling water,
_ _ _ saying please [Bb] be _ _ [C] home before the [Gm] cold winds [F] blow. _ _ _ _ _
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[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ One more time.