Chords for Kern River Blues: Haggard's Final Tune

[D] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well, I'm leaving town tomorrow, _ _ _ _ I'll get my breakfast in the sky. _ _ _ _ _
Well, [Ab] I'm leaving in the early morning, _ _ _ eat my breakfast in the [Eb] sky. _ _ _ _ _
Be [Bb] a donut _ on the paper, _ _ _ _ drink my coffee [Eb] on the fly.
_ Well, _ _ I'm flying out on a jet plane, _ gonna leave this town behind. _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] I'm flying out on a jet plane, gonna leave this town [Eb] behind. _ _ _ _
They [Bb] done moved the city limit, _ _ _ _ _ _ out by the county [Eb] line. _ _ _ _
Put my head up to the window, _ watch the city _ fade away.
_ _ _ _ Put [Ab] my head close to the window, watch Oildale [Eb] fade away. _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] Now the blues back in the 30s, _ _ _ _ just like the [Eb] blues today.
There _ _
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_ _ used to be a river here, _ _ running deep and wide.
_ _ _ _ [Ab] Well, we used to have Kern River, _ _ running _ deep [Eb] and wide. _ _ _
_ [Bb] Then somebody stole the water, _ _ _ _ _ another [C] politician [Eb] lied. _ _ _ _
_ When you closed down all the hockey talks, the city died at night.
_ _ _ _ When [Ab] you closed down all the hockey talks, the city _ died [Eb] at night. _ _ _
_ [Bb] When it hurts _ somebody's feelings, _ _ _ _ well, a wrong ain't [Eb] never right. _ _ _
Well, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ I'm leaving town forever, _ kissing old Boxcar goodbye. _
_ _ _ Well, [Ab] I'm leaving town forever, _ kissing old Boxcar [Eb] goodbye.
_ _ _ I dumped [Bb] my blues down in the river, _ _ _ _ _ but the old Kern [C] [Eb] River's dry. _ _ _ _ _
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