Arkansas Chords by Osborne Brothers

[B] _ [G#m] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ [D#m] _
[F#] _ [B] _ _ [E] _ [F#] _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ Oh, the brown bush [G#m] took the cabin [B] I was born in
[G#m] And the briar [B] reclaimed the fields I used to plow
_ [E] There's a yearning in my heart [B] to be going
To that forty [E] acre [F#] patch God [B] sowed in _ sprouts
[G#m] Arkansas, _ are your [B] rivers still flowing?
Is your cotton [E] growing [Bm] white as [F#] snow?
[E] Are the squirrels still a-barking [B] up on old Crowley's Ridge?
[E] Has the girl a-farking [B] gone and burned [G#m] another _ bridge?
[B] Arkansas, _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _
_ [B] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I have known the [G#m] troubles I was [B] born to know
_ [G#m] I have wanted [B] things a poor man's born to want
_ [E] And in all my dreams and memories I [B] go running
Through the fields of [E] Arkansas [F#] from [B] which I sprung
_ [G#m] Arkansas, _ are your [B] rivers still flowing?
Is your [E] cotton growing [F#] white as snow?
_ [E] Do the young men still piddle [B] with the thumb [F#m] rich
[E] And slowly turn old folks [B] sitting, whittling [G#m] on a _ stick?
[B] Arkansas, _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F#] _ [E] _ [D#m] _ [F#] _ [B] Arkansas
[E] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _