Chords for Richard Shindell - The Cold Missouri Waters

Missouri waters.
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_ _ [Db] My name is Dodge, [Bbm] but then you know that
_ _ [Db]
It's written on the charter, front end of the [Ab] bed
They _ _ _ _ [Db] think I'm blind, but I [Bbm] can't read it
[Db] And I read every word, every word that said [Ab] it's dead _ _
_ _ _ So [Bbm]
confession, is that [Gb] the reason that you [Db] came?
_ Get [Bbm] it off your chest, before [Db] I check out of [Ab] the game
Since _ _ _ _ [Bbm] you mentioned it, well [Db] there's thirteen things I need
_ [Eb] Thirteen [Gb] crosses high, _ [Ab] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Gb] _ _ _
_ _ _ oh [Db] it's forty-nine
West [Bbm] Montana, _ _
_ [Gb] I'd stay on record before it's tinder [Ab] dry _ _ _ _
_ Lightning [Db] strikes, _ in [Bbm] the mountain
I [Gb] was crew chief at the junk base, [Db] I prepared the boys [Ab] to fly
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I picked the [Bbm] drop zone, see forty [Db]-nine, comes in low
[Ab] _ I [Bbm] feel the tap, _ [Db] on your neck, it tells [Ab] you go
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See [Bbm] the circle, _ [Gb] of a [Db] fire down below
Things [Eb] _
_ _ won't stop behind [Abm] us, _ [Bbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gb] _ _ [Db] _ _ _
_ against the fire, _ I [Bbm] seem bigger
_ [Gb] Why order down the [Db] side hill, we fight it from [Ab] below
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We'd have [Db] our backs, to [Bbm] the river
_ [Gb] We'd have it next by morning, even if we took it [Ab] slow
But _ _ _ _ [Bbm] the fire crows, and took [Gb] the valley just [Db] ahead
There [Bbm] was no way down, _
[Eb] get it for the [Ab] region said _
_ _ _ Too [Bbm] big to fight, we'd have to [Gb] fight that slope instead
_ [Eb] Things won't stop behind [Ab] us, cold [Bbm] Missouri waters
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[Db] Skies turn red, _ [Bbm] smoke would boil in
A [Db] few hundred yards to safety, you step a fifteen yards behind
[Ab] I _ _ _ _ [Db] don't know why, [Ab] I just [Bbm] thought it
[Gb] I'd just drop a match to [Db] waste my grass, running out [Ab] of time _ _ _
_ _ I [Bbm] tried to tell them, oh, seven [Db] to the fire, I said
There's no [Bbm] way down, this is the only [Ab] chance you'll get _ _
_ _ _ And you [Bbm] can't see, _ [Gb] that's where the rocks [Db] are bugging instead
And [Eb] I'd make a face, [Gb] but now I'm afraid of [Ab] the cold [Bbm] Missouri waters _
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_ [Db] And I'd mean well, _ [Bbm] like the phoenix
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_ _ _ _ And I'd see [Db] the night, [Ab] one day after
I'd carry [Gb] my life, to the [Db] river, wondering how I'd stay [Ab] alive _ _
_ _ _ First [Bbm] seeing the nation, from [Gb] across the barbed [Db] wire fall
_ _ [Bbm] I've had my say, [Db] I'll confess for [Ab] nothing more _
_ _ _ _ And I'm [Bbm] trying, but now, those that left [Db] me long before _ _ _
Thirteen across the tide of [Ab] the cold Missouri water
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_ [Ebm] Thirteen across [Db] the tide of the cold Missouri [Ebm] shore
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