Chords for Josiah and the Bonnevilles - Appalachia (on the back porch)

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[G] _ [Am] _ Far too many [C] times I've held it in.
[F] _ Appalachia [C] rage in the northbound [G] wind.
_ [F] My mind is growing [C] strong but my [G] body's wearing [Bb] thin.
I [C] can't turn this thing around, _ [G] _ [Am]
but you might see [C] it every now and then.
[F]
Appalachia [C] sorrow running down [G] my skin.
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Thinking of [C] tomorrow, [G] some things that [Bb] might have been.
[Fm] I'm just trying [C] to live it down.
_ [Bb] Oh, [Fm] I'm just trying to [C] live it down.
[G] _ [F] When they [C] lay my body [Am] in the [G] green, [C] green [F] grass,
I will [C] whisper secrets to the animals that pass.
By the [F] times [B] I know I swore [Am] I was [C] never coming [G] back.
[Fm] But I lied, [C] I am _
[Am] [G] Appalachia.
[C] _ Oh, I [F] lied, [C] I am _
[Am] [G] Appalachia.
[C] I _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [Am] _ wake up to [G] find that [C] I have outgrown my friends.
[F] Our seeds grew side by [C] side, but my roots grew [G] thin.
[C] _ [F] Then one day I blew [C]
away in [G] autumn's [Bb] restless wind.
[Fm] She has [C] never set me down.
_ [G] _ [Am] Alone I wing [G] my [C] way through winter storms.
_ [F] Spring [G] brought new [C] life and summer down it was [G] torn.
[F] There was blood on my mama's [C] knees from [Bm] talking to [Bb] the Lord.
He [F] won't [C] let me wash it out. _ _
[Bb] Oh, he [F] won't let [C] me wash it out. _
When they lay my body in the green, green [G] grass,
[Fm] I will [C] whisper [Am] secrets to the [G] animals [C] that pass.
[Fm] By the times I [B] walked away, [Am] by the [Em] times that I [C] ran back,
[F] cause inside I am [G] _ [Am] [G] Appalachia.
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Oh, inside I am [Am] Appalachia.
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[Am] [G] They [C] my body in the green, green grass,
in the green, green grass.
[Am] I'm coming back.
Lay [C] my body in the green, green grass,
in the green, green grass.
I'm coming [G] back.
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