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