Chords for Rosanne Cash performing "The Sunken Lands" Live at KCRW's Apogee Sessions

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_ _ _ _ _ [D] This is, these [Am] songs are all about the South.
[A] John and I co-wrote the album together except for one song,
which we wrote with Rodney Crowell.
_ _ I know, [F#] writing with my husband and my ex-husband,
that [G#] in itself is_
_ [E] I'm very proud of that.
Dare we say modern family?
Yes. _ _
_ It took some evolution [A#] to be [B] able to do that.
_ _ But we wrote these songs after a lot of trips through the Delta,
particularly through the [Bm] South, but mostly through the Delta. _
And, you know, the [Gm] Delta is rife with [F] characters
[Bm] and _ timeless places and music [E] and [Bm]
revolution,
some kind of vortex there. _
_ _ _ This song is about an area of Arkansas called the Sunken Lands.
It's where my father grew up.
The Cash family was _ _ _ given a cottage,
_ _ 40 acres and a mule, [B] during the New Deal,
and it [C#] saved their lives.
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The hero of this song is my grandmother, [B] Carrie Cash,
who raised seven children and picked cotton
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and had a hard life, _ _
_ _ harder than we can imagine.
She never complained. _ _ _ _ _
They said when they moved into their brand-new cottage,
there were five cans of paint sitting in the front room, _
_ _ _ [F] nicest [Bm] place they'd ever seen.
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_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] Five [D] cans of paint [A] in the empty _ fields
_ And the [Em] dust _ reveals
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_ _ _ _ The _ [A]
children [D] _ cry
The [A] work never ends
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single friend
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] Who will hold [A] her hand _
In the [E] sunken _ [D] _ [G] lands
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_ _ _ _ The mud [C#] _
[D] and _ tears
Melt [A] the cotton balls
_ _ _ It's a [Em] heavy _ toll
_ Oh, [Bm] _ oh
_ _ _ _ His [A] words [D] are cruel
And they sting [A] like _ fire
_ Like [Em] the devil's choir _ _ _ [Bm] Oh, oh
_ _ Who [A] _ [G] _
will [Em] hold [A] her _ hand
In the sunken [Em] _ _ [D] lands
[G] _ _ The [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _
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river [D] _ rises
And she [A] sails away
_ She could [Em] never _ _ stay _ [Bm] Oh, oh
_ _ _ _ The [A] work [D] is done
In [A] those sunken _ _ lands _ _
There's [B] five empty [Bm] _ cans _
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_ _ [N] _ Applause _ _ _
_ Thanks _ very much _ _ _ _ _ Applause _
Woo! _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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