Kern River Chords by Emmylou Harris

_ _ [B] I'll never swim Kern River [F#] again
It was there that I met him
There that I lost [C#] my best friend
_ [B] Now I live in the [A#m] mountains
I drifted up here [B] with the wind
_ [F#] And I may drown in still water
[C#] But I'll never swim Kern River [F#] again
_ He grew up in an old [B] town
But that gusher never [F#] came in
_ And the river was a boundary
Where my darling and [C#] I used to swim
One _ [F#]
night in the [B] moonlight
The swiftness swept [F#] his life away
_ Now I live on Lake [C#] Shasta
And Lake Shasta is [F#] where I will stay
_ There's the South San [B] Joaquin
Where the seeds of the Dust [F#] Bowl are found
_ And there's a place called Mount Whitney
From where the mighty Kern [C#] River comes down
[C#] _ [F#] Now it's not deep nor [B] wide
But it's a mean piece of [F#] water, my friend
_ And I may cross on the [C#] highway
But I'll never swim [F#] Kern River again
_ [B] I'll never swim Kern [F#] River again
It was there that I met him
There that I [C#] lost my best friend
_ [B] Now I live in the mountains
I drifted up here with the wind
_ [F#] And I may drown in still [C#] water
But I'll never swim [F#] Kern River again _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ [B] _ _ [A#m] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ [B] I'll never swim Kern River [F#] again
It was there that I met him
There that I lost my best friend
Now [B] I live in the mountains
[F#] I drifted up here [B] with the wind
_ [F#] And I may cross on the highway
[C#] But I'll never swim Kern River [F#] again
_ [B] No, I'll never swim Kern River [F#] again _ _ _ _ _ _
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