Chords for Dave Alvin - "Kern River" (Merle Haggard Cover)

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[A] _ [A#] _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Dm] _ [Gm] _ [G] _ _
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All right, what are we doing also _ from the west of the west?
Album is a song written by a guy born in Oildale, California.
This is a Merle Haggard [Am] song
[G]
And _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] I'll never swim current river [G] again
Was there that I met her?
There that I lost [D] my biggest friend.
I _ _ _
_ [C] live in the mountains.
[B] I [G] drifted up here
_ [Am] _ With the wind I _ [G] may drown in still waters.
[D] I'll never swim current river [G] _ [C] I
[G] _ [D] _ [G] _ _
Was born in an oil town, [C] but my gusher
Never [G] came in
And _ _ _ the river was a boundary where my darling and I [D] used to swim
And _ _ [G] one night in the moonlight [C] the swift current swept her [G] life
_ _ Away _ _
I live on Lake Shasta [D] Lake Shasta is where [G] I will stay
[Am] [G] And _ _
_ [C] I'll never swim current river [G] again
[C] _
[G] Was there that I met her?
There that I lost my [D] best friend _ _ _ _
_ [G] [C] Now I live in the [G] mountains.
I drifted up here
[Am] _ _ with the wind I
_ [G] May drown in still [D] waters.
I'll never swim current river
[G] _ _ Well _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _ _
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_ [Am] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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[C] _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _ _
the South San Joaquin
with the seeds of [C] the Dust Bowl
_ [G] _ fine
[C] [G] There's _ _ a place called Mount Whitney where the mighty current [D] river runs down
You _ _
[G] know, it ain't deep nor wide, [C] but it's a mean piece of water
[G] my friend I _
_ May cross on the highway, but I'll [D] never swim current river [G] _ _ [A] again
[G] _ _ [A]
[G] I'll [C] never swim current [G] river [Am] again
[G] They _ that I met her there that I lost my [D] best friend
_ Now _
_ [C] I live in the [G] mountains.
I drifted up here
_ [Am] _ With the we hit _ _
_ [G] me drown in still waters.
[D] I'll never swim current [G] river
_ _ _ I _ _ may cross on the highway.
I'll [D] never swim current river _ _ _ _ [G] again _
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