Laughing River Chords by Greg Brown

Well, you know I have talked entirely too much about this whole fishing deal like everybody I meet now says hey Greg
How's fishing been and I mean I you know I? _ _
Know I know I know I accept full responsibility for _
All his fishing questions, and I do like to I do like to fish
You know I do I do, but I just should have shut up about it.
I think
_ Fishing actually to tell you the truth has been very good up in the UP
I had some very beautiful days of fishing up there
Walking way back getting lost in [D] the woods and
Finally getting down to the river [C] not seeing a soul catching beautiful of brook trout all day
It was really good for a guy like me.
I've had a good [B] time
[N] I've never really had too much good fishing right around Traverse City
But I've never really been here long enough to really find a little secret places.
You know you can't just go where
Everybody goes you have to I know that I know they're here, man
I know that's not the problem, but I've never had time to [E] really find them
[B] _ _ _
[F#] I have had good fishing up in the UP.
_ I do like the UP.
There's some about it up there
You know it's like it's like Alaska or something
_ [N]
That's the only place I've been in the United States that reminds me all the UP
It's like a separate kind of place with their own deal and plus everybody really needs each other up there
You know it's no joke.
I mean in the winter up there.
You better you better damn well know your neighbors
_ If you see a car stall you better stop
_ That's what it takes to build community this whole idea of intentional community is much baloney
You know you got to need each other and they still [F#] do in the UP
_ So that's the cool place.
Well.
[E] Here's a song.
I wrote up there. _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
I'm going away _ _ _
[B] Cuz I got a [E] busted heart _ _ _
Well, I'm leaving today
_ _ [B] _
[A] It might [E] travel all the stars _ _
[C#m] _ And I [A] reckon where I'm headed _ _
[B] _ I'm gonna need me different clothes _ _
[E] _ Way up in Michigan
_ _ [B] _
[A] _ Where the [B] laughing river [E] flows _ _
_ 20 years in the minor leagues
_ [B] _
[A] _ Ain't no place I [E] didn't go _ _
_ Well, I got me a few hits
_ [B] _
[A] _ But I never [E] made the show _ _
_ [C#m] And I can hang on for a few [A] years _
[B] _ Doing what [E] I've done before I _
_ Want to hear the laughing river
[B] _
[A] _ _ Flowing right [E] outside my door _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ _ on my cousin Ray _ _
[A] _ He said [E] he's got a job for me
[A] _
[E] _ Where the houses are still cheap?
[A] _ [G#] And he knows this [E] nice lady _
[C#m] _ He said she [A] even saw me play once _
_ [B] Said she smiled in my name
_ [A] _
[E] _ Well up on the laughing river _
_ [A] It could be [C#] a whole new game
_ [A] _
[E] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A] _
[E] _ And it's a goodbye to the bus _ _
[A] _ And [E] goodbye to paying dues
_ [A] _
[E] _ And it's a goodbye to the cheers _
[A] _ [B] Yeah, and it's goodbye [E] to the booze _ _
[C#m] _ _ I'm trading [A] in this old bag _
[B] _ [E] It's for a fishing pole
[A] _
[E] _ I'm gonna let the laughing river _ _
[A] _ [E] flow right into my soul
[A] _
[E] _ And I'm going away _ _
[A] _ [B] Cuz I got a [E] busted heart
_ [A] _
[E] _ I'm leaving today _ _
[A] If [B] my own international [E] travel all _
[C#m] start
_ Wrecking where I'm [A] headed _ _
[E] _ I'm gonna need me different clothes _ _
_ Way way way [B] way way up in
[A] Michigan [E] where the laughing river flows
_ [A] _
[E] I'm going way way way way way up _
[A] _ [E] Where the laughing river flows
_ [A] _
[E] I'm gonna buy that little house my cousin Ray told [A] me about I know it needs a new [E] roof, but I'll put a new
_ [A]
[E] roof on it, and I'll raise me a big [B] garden and _ _
[A] I'll catch me a lot of [B] trout in the yellow [E] dog river and I'll
_ [A]
Grow me a lot of tomatoes somehow in that sandy soil
[B] _ _
[A] _ _ [B] All winter long [E] I'll sit around by my wood stove
_ Eating canned tomatoes and [E] canned trout way way way way way way way way way way way way way way
up in Michigan
_ [B] _ _
[A] _ Where the [E] laughing river
_ flows
_ _ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _