James Keelaghan & Hugh McMillan – Cold Missouri Waters Chords

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My name is Dodge
_ Then you [Am] know that
_ _ _ [Fm] It's written on the chart [C] there at the foot end of the bed
[G] _ _ [C] They think I'm blind
_ Or I [Am] can't read it
_ _ _ [F] Well, I've read it every word and every [C] word it says is [G] death _ [Am] so _ Confession
_ Is that [F] the reason [C] that you came?
[Am] Get it off my chest
_ Before [F] I check out [C] of the [G] game
_ [Am] Since you mentioned it
_ _ [C] Well, [F] there's [C] 13 things on name
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routine [F] crosses high [G] above the cold [C] Missouri water _ _ _ _ August _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 49 _ _ _ [Am] West _ _ Montana _ _
[F] the hottest day on record
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_ _ forest tender [G] dry
[C] lightning _ strike _ _ _
In the [Am] mountain _ _ I _
[F] was crew chief with the jump base
[C] I prepared those [G] boys to fly [Am]
pick the drop zone C _
[F] 47 _ [C] comes in low [Am] heel tap _ _ _ on [F] your leg that tells you [G] go _
[Am] see the circle _ _ [C] of
[F] That fire [C] down _ below
[Dm] Have [G] 15 of [F] us dropped [Em] above the [G] cold [C] Missouri water _ _
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a sapphire
Yeah, [Am] I'd seen bigger _
_ _ _ [F] Why order them side hill and we [C] fight it from below?
[G] _ We'd [C] have our _ back
to [Am] that river _ _
[C] Yeah, [F] we have been licked by morning [C] _ even if we took it [G] slow
_ [Am] but the fire _ crown
_ Jump [F] the valley [C] just ahead _ [Am] there was no way down
We [F] headed for the [G] ridge instead too [Am] big to fight it. _ _
We [C] [F] have to fight that [C] slope instead
_ [Dm] _ [C] Flames one [F] step behind [G] above the cold [C] Missouri _ _ water
_ the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ sky it's heard red
_ _ [Am] Smoke was boiling
_ _ _ _ _ [F] 200 yards to safety [C] death was 50 [G] yards behind.
[C] I don't know why _ _ I
[Am] Just thought it _ _ [F] I
Struck a match to waste our [C] grass running out of [G] time
_ [Am] Try to tell them
_ _ _ [F] Step into this [C] fire.
I've said we [Am] can't make it
_ _ This [F] is the only [G] chance you'll get but [Am] they cursed me
_ _ [C] Ran [F] for the rocks [C] above _ instead [Dm] I lay [C]
face [F] down and prayed [G] above the cold [C] Missouri _ water _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [C] and
when I roll
_ _ _ [Am] like the Phoenix
_ _ [F] Not a world reduced to [C] ashes.
There were none but to [G] survive
_ [C] I stayed that night
_ _ one [Am] day after
_ _ _ Or [F] carried bodies to the river
_ [C] wondering how I'd stayed [G] alive [Am] thirteen _ _ stations
_ _ [F] Of the cross to [C] mark their fall [Am] and had my seed
_ [F] Now confessed [C] to nothing [G] more and [Am] I'll join them _ now
[C] _ [F] Those that left me [C] long _ before
_ [Dm] _ [C] Thirteen _ [F] crosses high [G] above cold [C] Missouri water
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Thirteen crosses high [C] above [G] the [C] cold Missouri _ _ _ shore _
_ _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ long to see you _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Oh _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Shenandoah, _ I long to see
_ _ We _ _ _ _ _ _ found the _ _ way _ _ across the _ _ wide _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [C] Missouri _ _ _ _
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