Acadian Driftwood Chords by The Band

[Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ [Gm] The _ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [F] _ war was over and the spirit [Gm] was broken [Dm] The [Bb] hills were smoking [Gm] as the men withdrew
[F] We stood on the cliffs, [C] and [B]
watched the ships [Bb] _ Slowly sinking [Gm] to their rendezvous
_ [F] They signed a treaty [D] and our [Gm] hopes were taken [Am] [Bb] Loved ones forsaken, they [Gm] didn't give a damn
[F] _ Gotta raise a family, [C] [B] end up the enemy [Bb] Over what went down on the plains of Abraham
_ _ [F] _ [Bb] _ Arcadian driftwood, gypsy [C] _ [Gm] tailwind [Bb] They call my home, the [Gm] land of [F] snow
[Bb] Canadian [Gm] cold flood, frozen _ [Bb] land What a way to ride, oh what a [F] way to go
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[Gm] _ _ [F] Then some returned [D] to [C] the motherland [Dm] The [Bb] high command [Gm] had been cast [Bb] away
[F] Some stayed on [G] to [Am] finish what they started [Bb] They never parted, [Gm] they just felt that way
_ [F] He had kin [C] living south of the border [Dm] [Bb] They're a little older and [Gm] they've been around
_ [F] _ They wrote in a letter, life [Am] is a whole lot better _ [Bb] So pull up your stakes children [Gm] and come on down
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ Arcadian [Gm] driftwood, gypsy [C] tailwind [Bb] [F] They call [C] my home, [Bb] [F] the land of snow
_ [Bb] Canadian cold [F] [Gm] flood, frozen [Cm] [Dm] land [Bb] What a way to [F] ride, oh what a way to go
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_ _ [F] Fifteen under zero [C] when the day became a threat [Gm] [Dm] My clothes [Bb] were wet and [Gm] I was rich to the bone
[F] _ Then out ice fishing, [C] oh too much [G] repetition _ [Bb] The command wanted me, the [Gm] only homies known
_ [F] Sailed out of the Gulf, heading for [Cm] St.
Pierre [Dm] Nothing to [Bb] declare, all [Gm] we had was gone
[F] _ Broke down along the coast, [C] oh the [B] white [Am] purple [Bb] moat When the people there said, you better [Gm] keep [Dm] moving on
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ Arcadian [Gm] driftwood, gypsy [C] _ [Bb] tailwind They call my home, [Gm] the land of [F] snow
_ [Bb] Canadian cold [Gm] flood, frozen _ [Bb] land What a way to [Dm] ride, [Gm] oh what a [F] way to go
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_ [C] _ [F] _ Everlasting summer filled with [C] ill content [Gm] _ [Am] [D] This [Bb] [F] government's [Gm] got us walking in chains
_ [F] This isn't my turf, [C] [G] this ain't my [Am] season [Bb] Can't think of one good [Gm] reason to remain
Oh, [F] we worked in the sugar fields [Am] up on [C] New Orleans _ [Am] [Bb] It was ever green, [Gm] up until the floods
_ [F] You could call it an old one, [C] [Am] aren't you where you're going?
[Bb] In my compass north [Gm] I got winter in my blood
_ [F] _ _ [Bb] Arcadian [Gm] driftwood, [F] gypsy _ [Bb] tailwind They call my home, the [Gm] land of snow
[F] _ [Bb] Canadian cold flood, frozen _ land What a way to ride, oh what a [F] way to go
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[Gm] Said [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ [Gm] _
_ [C] _ [F] _ to [Bb] Arcadia, [F] share the magic faith That [Bb] means, Arcadia, [F] better [Gm] love my [F] soulmate
Gary [Bb] MacAteer, he's a lumpy, [F] lumpy lute
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