Chords for Nick Shoulders | "Rise When the Rooster Crows" | Western AF

_ I try to sing, _ I try to _ sing low I _ _ _ try to sing, I try to sing
I _ _ _ _ try to sing, I try to sing _ loud
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_ _ I'm warming [Fm] up
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_ _ _ _ _ Oh my turn's turned at the break of day _ _ [Bb]
I'd leave you here just to get away _ _ _
[F] You call it splendor, I call it pain I'm a-limping back to land of rain
I'll rise when the rooster _ crows Rise when the rooster crows
I'm going back south where the sun shines hot Oh, down where the river cane grows _ _
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_ _ If you go west, don't go for _ long _ [Bb] You'll live out homesick country _ songs
_ _ [F] Trees and air are my kind of riches I'll do my best just to keep between the ditches
I'll rise when the rooster crows Rise when the rooster crows
I'm going back south where the sun shines hot Oh, down where the river cane _ grows _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ We're currently surrounded by a river cane, which I think is pretty cool.
_ _ When Gabriel comes to blow his _ horn _ [Bb] We'll have the scarlet banner at last be torn _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Prepare yourself and try to get away For you can't eat money and buy your fate
I'll rise when the rooster crows [Dm] Rise when the [F] rooster crows
I'm going back south where the sun shines hot Oh, down where the river cane grows
I'll rise when the rooster crows Rise when the rooster crows
I'm going back south where the sun shines hot Oh, down where [E] the river _ [F] cane _ grows
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_ _ _ _ _ _ kind of critter out there.
_ _ [N] _ Anyway, I wrote this song _ about sort of the idea of the homesick southerner being such a tired trope,
but still a trope that resonates for so many people.
But when I wrote it, I just knew the old Brinkley Brothers recording.
It's like a 20 string band recording.
And it says, Rise when the rooster crows.
So I thought that's really early.
That's early for me, at least.
But I heard a Doc Watson recording of it.
And apparently this was written from the perspective of a southern person working in mills in the north.
And they're tired of working in the north.
They're tired of being on the clock.
And so they decide they're going to go back home and wake up really late, which is when the rooster crows.
And I realized I wrote the song with kind of a sense of urgency.
And really it's about a sense of laziness.
So I think this is about the right to