Chords for Cold Missouri Waters

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[E] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ _ My name is Dodge, _ _ [F#] _ [F#m] then you know that.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] It's written on the chart there [A] at the foot end of [E] my bed.
They [A] think that I am blind, _ [E] _ that [F#m] I can't read it.
_ _ _ _ [D] Well, I've read that chart there, every [A] word, every word [E] spells death.
_ My [F#m] confession, _ _ _ [A] I know that's [D] the reason that [A] you [E] came.
_ [F#m] Get it off my chest _ _ _ before I check [E] out of the game.
_ [F#m] Since you asked me, _ _ _ [D] there are 13 [A] things I'll name.
_ [Bm] _ 13 [D] crosses high _ [E] above the cold Missouri [A] water. _ _ _ _ _
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It was August of 49 _ [E] _
in [F#m] North Montana.
[A] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
[D] It was the hottest day on record. _ _
[A] The forest was tender [E] dry. _
_ [A] Lightning struck _ [E] in the [F#m] gates of the mountains. _ _ _ _
[D] I was crew chief at the jump base.
[A] I prepared my [E] boys to fly.
I [F#m] picked the drop zone. _ _
C [D]-47 [F#] swooped in low.
I [F#m] gave the tap _ _ _ [B] upon each leg to tell [E] them go. _
[F#m] I watched the circle _ _ of [D] the fire [A] down below. _
_ [F#] _ _ [A] 15 of us jump _ [E] above the cold Missouri [A] water. _
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_ _ _ I gauged the fire. _
_ _ [E] _ I'd [F#m] seen bigger. _
_ _ _ _ [D] So I ordered them to side hill [A] and we'd fight it [E] from below.
[F#] We'd keep our [A] backs _ _ [G#m] to the [F#m] Missouri River. _
_ _ _ _ [D] We'd have this one out by morning, _ [A] even if we took [E] it slow.
_ [F#m] With the fire crown, _ _ it [D] jumped the coulee [A] just [E] ahead.
_ [F#m] There was no way down, _ so we [A] headed for the [E] ridge instead.
_ But the [F#m] fire exploded _ _ and it [D] chased us up that [A] slope ahead.
_ _ _ [Bm] Flames [D] one step behind _ [E] above the cold [F#] Missouri _ [A] waters.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Sky turned to red.
_ [E] _ Black [F#m] smoke was boiling.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] 200 yards to safety.
_ [A] Death was 50 steps [E] behind.
_ _ [A] I don't know why.
_ _ [E] I [F#m] just did it. _
_ _ _ _ [D] I touched a match to waste high [A] grass cuz we were running [E] out of time.
I [F#m] shouted to them.
_ _ _ _ [D] Step inside this [A] fire I've set.
[E] You [F#m] can't make it.
_ _ _ This [D] is the only chance [E] you'll get.
_ [F#m] But they cursed me.
_ _ _ [D] Ran for the [A] rocks above instead.
_ _ _ [Bm] I lay face [D] down and I prayed [E] above the cold [F#] Missouri _ [A] _ waters. _ _ _
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_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [A] _ _
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_ _ _ _ And when I rose, _ _ _ [F#m] like the phoenix,
_ _ _ _ _ [D] the world was burned to ashes _ [A] and there were only two [E] survived.
_ _ [A] I worked all that night _ [E] and [F#m] all of the next day.
_ _ _ [D] I carried my dead boys to the river, _ [A] wondered why was [E] I alive. _ _ _ _
[F#m] 13 stations _ _ of _ [D] the cross [A] to mark their fall.
_ [F#m] I've told you, _ _ [A] _
[D] I can [A] tell you nothing [E] more. _
_ [F#m] But I'll join them now _ _ [D] because they left me [A] long before. _
_ [Bm] _ 13 [D] voices high _ [E] above the cold [A] Missouri _ waters.
_ [Bm] _ 13 [D] faces high [E] above the cold [A] Missouri _ waters.
_ [Bm] _ 13 crosses [D]
high _ _ _ [E] above the cold [A] Missouri shore. _ _ _ _
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