Where The Arkansas River Leaves Oklahoma Chords by Don Williams

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_ _ _ Where the Arkansas River _ [F] _ leaves Oklahoma, it [C] runs free and rambles _ muddy [G] and wide. _ _
[C] Where the Arkansas _ River _
[F] _ leaves Oklahoma, _ [C] it's gone forever [G] and never [C] looks back.
_ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ met her in Stillwell, _ [F] _ [C] she'd just turned [Am] twenty, _ [C] _ _ a spirited beauty like I'd [G] never _ known.
_ _ [C] And me, a dirt farmer who lived by the river, _ _ _ but she said she loved me [G] and the free [C] life I owned. _
_ We _ _ _ _ _ _ _ married in April and lived by the river, _ _ _ _ we worked that land from spring [G] till the fall. _ _
[C] But I guess when the winter _
_ [F] howled at [C] our window, _ _ she couldn't help hearing [G] that wild [C] river call. _ _ _
Where the Arkansas River _
[F] _ leaves Oklahoma, [C] it runs free and rambles _ muddy [G] and wide.
_ _ [C] Where the Arkansas _ River _ [F] _ leaves Oklahoma, _ [C] it's gone forever _ [G] and never looks [C] _ back.
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_ _ She tried to conquer _ that wild rage within her, _ _ _ but something too strong ran deep in her [G] soul. _
_ _ [C] But I know she loved me, _ [F] _ she [C] cried like a baby. _
_ That cold winter evening, _ [G] she answered [Dm] the [C] call. _ _
_ Where the Arkansas River _ [F] _ leaves Oklahoma, [C] it runs free and rambles muddy [G] and wide.
_ _ Where [C] the Arkansas River _ [F] _
leaves Oklahoma, _ [C] it's gone forever _ [G] and never [C] looks _ back. _ _ _ _ _ _
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