Chords for John Hartford - Where Does An Old Time River Man Go? (Ryan Cook)

[Bb] Hey, that's a nice picture.
_ _ _ Still the leather jacket and the really hairy chest.
Here we go.
What more do women want?
Yeah, you grew all that hair.
Oh, I know.
Besides a [G] bed dramatic.
[E]
Where Does an Old-Time River Man Go?
On the Chippewa Grove.
_ Keevy.
_ Where [A] does an old [B] time river man go?
After he's passed [E] away. _
_ Does his soul still keep [B] a watch on the deep
For the rest of the [E] river days?
_ [A] Does he then come back [B] as a channelled cat
Or [A] the [B] wasps that line on [E] the wheel?
_ _ Or the birds that [B] fly in the summer sky
Or the fish swimming under [E] the keel?
_ Where [A] does an old [B] time pilot go
_ After he's stood his [E] last watch?
_ Does he fall by the ear [B] of a man who steers
Saying, hold her [E] on that notch?
_ [A] As a gentle [B] sneezing river breathes
[A] Saying, son, [B] go [E] in the pit
And let their pipes [B] blow off in the night
_ Was that _ [E] fireflies instead?
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_ _ _ [A] does an [B] old time engineer go
_ After he's cooled [E] down
_ _ Gone up the hill [B] to never come back
On the quiet side [E] of town?
_ [A] Does his soul live on [B] in the engine song
[A] As the [B] striker [E] checks the gear?
_ Is he still afloat [B] on an old steamboat
_ After he's [E] gone from here?
_ _ Where [A] does an old [B] time river man go?
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