Tonalità: C major
Intro 1
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Em
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G
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Verse 1
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Colorado passes
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by like writing on a wall
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Headed Eastward down
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D
to New Orleans
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Dipping into Texas as the stars
are fading out
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But there's still a lot
of country in-between
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Bm
When When I left California,
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I was 29 years old
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D
Em
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A
And the world just spun me 'round
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Now I just watch Louisiana
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Scroll across the windowpane
Em
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And I face in the direction I am bound
Verse 2
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Bm
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D
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Cov er up the sun
Em
Bm
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D
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Bm
Let the river run
Em
Bm
A
F#m
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Make the wa ters come
D
and wash me away
Verse 3
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Me, Clifton and the King of Cats
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sat down in the road
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Pedro said "Boys,
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we're three of a kind"
He said "I've sat with river rats
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And I've hung my hat with diplomats
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A
I had 4 brothers once upon a time"
Bm
He said they toured the country far
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D
away from the Rio Grande
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D
Em
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A
But the road just wore them down
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So they bought a house beside a
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Bm
lake outside of New Orleans
D
Em
And they stared in the direction
C
A
of the escalating sound
Verse 4
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Bm
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D
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Cov er up the sun
Em
Bm
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D
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Let the river run
Em
Bm
A
F#m
G
Take this good man's son
Bm
and wash him away
D
Verse 5
Sister Indecipherable
Em
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is talking to a wall
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Back in New York City,
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she's a queen
Resurrect or genuflect
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She saves the ones she
can't protect
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And keeps the chapel pris-
A
(if not Sis-) tine
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Bm
She drinks Absinthe mixed with kerosene
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D
To keep herself upright
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D
Em
D
A
But the world still brings her down
D
If you can't keep your shit together when
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D
God is on your side
Em
What chance do you have
G
when he's not around?
Verse 6
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D
G
Em
Cover up the sun
Bm
A
D
G
Em
Make that water run
A
F#m
G
Let the river come to wash
me away
D
Bm
D
Verse 7
People of the Mardi Gras
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in their Tuesday best
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D
Waiting for the South to rise again
Children of Geronimo griev
F#m
ing for The West
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Feather-dressed and
A
and marching the refrain
Bm
In the dark of Armstrong Park
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D
The marching bands attend
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D
Em
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A
But they never make a sound
D
Just a quiet prayer for Congo Square
G
D
A silent conversation there
Em
With the night to rest our eyes in
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A
We just look to the horizon for a change
Verse 8
Em
Bm
A
D
G
Cov er up the sun
Em
Bm
A
D
G
Let the river run
Em
A
D
G
Pray the waters come
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to wash me away
Verse 9
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A
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Color in the sky
Bm
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Bm
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G
Make the diesel fly
Em
Bm
A
F#m
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Lay me down to die and take me away
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