Chords for Richard Shindell performing, "Cold Missouri Waters".

Look!
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_ [F] _ _ _ [C] My name is Bob.
I've been [Am] here in the world now.
_ _ [F] _
[C] I've been searching around for the [G] miracle of death.
[C] They think I'm blind.
I [Am] can't be lost.
But I ran for the world.
The world said [G] it's death.
_ [Am]
So a confession.
[G] It's not very [C] easy.
But you can't [Am] get enough matches.
_ [C] Before I check out of [G] the gate.
[Am] Since you mentioned.
_ [C] Well there's 13 things I've been.
13 [F] crosses high [Gm] above.
The cold [Am] Missouri _ water.
_ _ [C] _ _ August 49.
_ [Am] West Montana. _ _
[C] Hot damn record.
In the forest [G] tinder dried.
[C] Lightning strikes.
In [Am] the mountains. _
[C] I was crew chief at a gym base.
I prepared the boys [G] to fly.
[Am] I picked a trap zone.
C [C]-487 comes in low.
[Am] Feel the temp.
On your legs.
Chills [G] you go.
[Am] See the circle.
[C] Above the fire down below.
And 15 [F] of us trapped [Gm] above.
The cold [Am] Missouri water.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] I gazed at the fire.
The fire [Am] seemed bigger.
So _ [G] I ordered them to snag him.
And we fight from below.
[C] We'd have our backs to [Am] the river. _ _
[F] We'd have it next fine morning.
[C] Even if we took it [G]
slow.
[Am] But the fire.
_ _ [C] Jumped the valley to the edge.
[Am] There's no way down.
[C] We have to fight that slope [G] instead.
Too big to be slight.
We have to [C] fight down.
We're so slow.
We were [F] left behind [C] above.
The cold Missouri [Am] water.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] I turned around.
The boat was [Am] pointing.
_ 200 yards to safety.
[C] That was 50 yards behind.
I don't know why.
I [Am] just saw it.
I strut and [C] match to waist high draft.
We're running [G] out of time.
[Am] I tried to step [C] into this fire.
I said [Am] you can't make it.
This is the [C] only chance [G] you'll get.
[Am]
They cursed me.
Ran for [C] the rocks above.
I looked up.
And I laid face [F] down in the creek [G] above.
The cold [Am] Missouri water.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ The water was so cold.
[Am] Like the phoenix.
[Cm] In that world reduced to [G] ashes.
With none but to survive.
[C] I stayed alive.
And [Am] one day after.
Carried by [C] the river.
One ran down.
I stayed [G] alive.
_ [Am] Thirteen stations.
Up across [C] the marker.
Fall.
[Am] My path must be.
I'll confess [C] to nothing [G] more.
I'm [Am] joining them now.
Those that left me [C] long before.
Thirteen [F] across this high above.
[Gm] The cold Missouri [Am] water.
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Thirteen across this high above.
The cold Missouri [Cm] shore.
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