Chords for Iris Dement & Tom Russell - Big Water

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_ [C] _ They call this river the [Am] father waters [C] _ _ I guarantee you that's [Am] a fact
_ [C] _ Old man river he [Am] gone high wild and angry [F] He taking the bottom [C] lands back _
Well you know that old saying [Am] come hell or high water
[C] They mean the same [Am] thing to me
_ [C] I watched my home and [Am] everything that I'd worked [F] for
Floating down [C] south to the sea _
_ [F] down to the [G] Mexican [C] _ sea
_ [F] _ Big [C] water rising _ [F] on the plans of [C] my sand man _
_ [F] Mother [C] nature's tears are flooding the lavatory of the worn [G] out _ [Am] promised land
[F] Of the worn out [C] _ promised land
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_ _ [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ [C] Nobel the Zoracus [Am] got a [C] directive he loaded the seabirds [Am] two by two
_ [C] Well me I got my wife and kid and [Am] a pair of old hound dogs in [F] a Sears and [C] Roebuck canal
We _ floated down [Am] to Hannibal Missouri [C] where the snakes were nesting [Am] in the trees
[C] I shouted Mark Twain as we [Am] were rolling through the [F] levee but no one shouted back [C] at me
_ [F] No one shouted [G] back [C] at me
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Big [C] water rising _ on [F] the plans of my [C] sand man
_ _ _ [F] Mother nature's [C] tears are flooding the levee of the worn [G] out [Am] promised _ land
[F] Of the worn out [C] promised land
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ [C] _ They call this river the [Am] father of [C] waters _ I guarantee [Am] you that's a fact
_ _ [C] Old man river he [Am] gone high wild and angry [F] He's taking the bottom [C] land back
_ He took the bankrupt farm and the [Am] empty coal [C] mines
And the ghost of the factory [Am] towns
_ [C] Well the bible tells of a [Am] fire next time but there'll [F] be nothing left to [C] burn down
_ [F] Nothing [G] left to [C] burn _ down
[F] _ Big [C] water rising _ [F] on the plans of my [C] sand man
_ Mother _ [F]
nature's [C] tears are flooding the levee of [Am] the worn [G] out [Am] promised land
[F] Of the worn out [C] promised land
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_ [C] _ _ Big [Am] water rising _
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