Chords for Johnny Cash (Live) - Five Feet High And Rising

[Bb] _ _ How high is the water, mama?
Two feet high and rising.
_ How high is the water, papa?
She said it's two feet high and rising.
We can make it to the road in a homemade boat.
That's the only thing we got left to the float.
[F] It's already over all the wheat and oats.
Two feet [Bb] high and rising.
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_ _ _ _ How high is the water, mama?
_ Three feet high and rising.
How high is the water, papa?
She said it's three feet high and rising.
Well, the hives are gone, I lost my bees.
[Gb] Chickens are sleeping in the wooded trees.
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_ _ _ How high is the water, mama?
Four feet high and rising.
How high is the water, papa?
She said it's four feet high and rising.
Hey, come look through the window [Ab] pane.
The bus is coming, gonna take us to the [Bb] train.
Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain.
Two feet high and rising.
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_ _ How high is the water, mama? _
Five feet high and rising.
How high is the water, papa?
She said it's five feet high and rising.
Will the rails go right south north?
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_ _ _ Now I saw sweet-sand willows, I cried.
And I showed the clouds how to cover [G] up a [C] clear blue sky.
[F] And it appears that I cried to that woman,
[Bb] Gonna flood you, big river,
[F] And I'm gonna sit [C] right here until [Fm] I die.
[F] _ I met her accidentally in St.
Paul, Minnesota.
And it pulled me up every time I [Gm] heard her call, southern call.
[F] Then I heard her scream back [Bb] downstream to go forth in Davenport.
[F] And I followed you, [C] big river, [Fm] when you called. _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ Then you took me to St.
Louis, later on down the river.
A freighter said she's been here, [G] but she's gone, boy, [Gm] she's gone.
[F] I found her trail in Memphis, [Bbm] but she just walked up the block.
[F] She raised a few eyebrows [C] and then she went on [Fm] down the walk.
[F] Now I walked to Fatty Town by Baton Rouge, river queen and bulldog.
_ Take that woman on down to [G] New Orleans, New Orleans.
[F] Alone I've had enough.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [F] She loves [C] you, big river, [Fm] more than me.
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