These are See Arkansaw chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.
[Verse] Am7 I asked the man when Texas ended D He said if you're lucky it won't Am7 I said I gotta gift I gotta get to Fort Smith D7 I was startin' to lose all hope Am7 The night was young when he pulled out a gun D And the bullet just missed my nose Am7 I thought I was delivered when I crossed the big river D7 Thought I knew, But D I just didn't know [Refrain} C C/G I passed over D the Ozarks and Am7 onto the Ouachitas I skipped from C C/G D poverty to poverty Am7 Fenced in in Arkansas G C G Arkansas [Verse] Am7 I saw the soybean fields and the flatbed trucks D7 And I watched the concrete creep Am7 Subdivided shoutin' on a blackrock mountain D7 Sayin' this is how it feels to be free Am7 I read the scripture on the billboard 7 Prophesying my damnation Am7 Reaching for his life, preachers on his third wife D7 Out in Branson on a big vacation [Refrain] Am7 C C/G I passed over the D Ozarks and Am7 onto the Ouachitas I skipped from C C/G poverty to D poverty Am7 Fenced in in Arkansas G C G Arkansas
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[Verse] Am7 I saw a nuclear D7 plant homegrown Am7 And I know it ain't fake 'cause they grew it in a lake D7 That they built just to cool its bones And they handed out a lotta badges D And made a lotta energy Am7 That they fired in a wire across state lines D7 While the state slurps up the fee Am7 And there's hardly a place that meth ain't D Planted a dead white kiss Am7 You can smell it in the air You can see it in the chair D7 It's a pretty damn hard to miss Am7 I saw a law officer shrug his whole body D7 Resigned to an American God Am7 Say if they wanted to, they'd help themselves D7 Then he put away his bible and he got out a gun [Refrain] C C/G D I passed over the Ozarks Am and onto the Ouachitas C C/G I skipped from poverty D to poverty Am7 Fenced in in Arkansas G C G Arkansas
[Verse] Am7 If God lives up in the Rockies D7 If that's where the big man meddles Am7 Then a lesser being of a lower degree D Must've come down there D and settled Am7 I met revelators and archimandrites D The big and the belittled Am7 I reckon all in time deep in my mind D We're gonna meet in the middle [Refrain] Am7 C C/G I passed over D the Ozarks Am7 and onto the Ouachitas C C/G I skipped from poverty D to poverty Am7 Fenced in in Arkansas G C G C G Arkansas [Verse] Am7 I can't tell ya where one thing ended D7 And another did occur Am7 It was new and it was old to me D It was more than I could observe Am7 If what is seein's for the taking D7 And the taking can be D seen Am7 I'm gonna need your help with the calculations D7 I'm can't tell ya what it all means [Outro] Am7 C C/G Passed over the Ozarks and Am7 onto the Ouachitas I skipped from C C/G poverty to D poverty Am7 Fenced in Arkansas G G Arkansas
