Capo: 2 Tuning: E A D G B E

Tom Russell - American Rivers CAPO: 2nd Fret [Intro] C [Verse 1]

Ain’t no more ^Fcane on the ^CBrazos Yeah, ^Fyeah, ^Gyeah ^C It’s all been ^Fground down to mo^Classes ^FYeah, ^Gyeah, ^Cyeah

[Verse 2] I saw a red iron sunset From a rust iron bridge

In the Indian ^Fcountry Of the mockingbird ^Ckid

[Verse 3] I saw the moon in a boxcar Being carried as freight

Through sixty-two ^Fwinters Through forty-eight ^Cstates

[Verse 4] In an old Chinese graveyard I slept in the weeds

When a song and a ^Fstory Were all a kid ^Cneeds

[Verse 5] Hear the rhymes and the rattles Of those runaway trains

And the songs of the ^Fcowboy And the sound of the ^Crain

[Chorus] And it’s, "Mom, I miss you" I woke up and screamed

American ^Frivers Roll deep through my ^Cdreams It's Colo^Frado, yeah, Alle^Cgheny Shenan^Fdoah, Susque^Channy And the ^AmWabash and the Hudson, the ^Gbrave Rio Grande I was a ^Fkid there, asleep in the sandy old ^Cwater ^FYeah, old ^Cwat^Fer, ye^Cah

[Interlude] C Bb C Bb C [Verse 6] We named ‘em for Indians Our guilt to forsake

The Delaware the ^FBlackfoot The Flathead the ^CSnake

[Verse 7] Now they roll past casinos And old hamburger stands

They’re all waving fare^Fwell To the kid on the ^Cland

[Verse 8] With their jigsawed old arteries So clogged and defiled

No open heart ^Fmiracle Is gonna turn ’em back ^Cwild

[Verse 9] Past towns gone to bankers Past fields gone to seed

All cut up and ^Fcarved out So divided by ^Cgreed

[Verse 10] And old grandfather catfish With his whiskers so long

And his life in a ^Fstruggle 'Cause the oxygen’s ^Cgone

[Chorus] "Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed

These American ^Frivers They poison my ^Cdreams It's Colo^Frado, yeah, Alle^Cgheny Shenan^Fdoah, Susque^Channy And the ^AmWabash and the Hudson, the ^Gbrave Rio Grande I was a ^Fkid there, I was asleep in the sandy old ^Cwater ^FYeah, old ^Cwat^Fer, yeah

[Outro] C Bb C Bb C

Tom Russell - American rivers