G C G C G
Well A great black river A man had found
C G C
So he put all his money in a hole in the
G
ground
C G D
And sent a big steel arm drivin' down down
G
down
C D G
Now I live on the streets of Houston town
C G C
Packed up my wife and kids when winter came
G
along
C G C
We headed down south with just spit and a
G
song
C G D G
But they said “Sorry son it's gone gone gone
C D G
It's gone gone gone it's all gone"
G C G
Well there's men hunkered down by the
C G
railroad tracks
C G C
Yeah that Elkhorn Special blowin' my hair
G
back
G C G C
Tents pitched on the highway in the dirty
G
moonlight
G C G D
And I don't know just where I'm gonna sleep
G
tonight
G C G
Parked in the lumberyard we're freezin' our
C G
asses off
G C G C
My kids in the back seat they got a graveyard
G
cough
G C G C G
Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife
G C G
Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the
C G
middle of the night
C G D G
Says “Move Along son move Along"
G C G C G
Well a big limousine long shiny and black
C G C
Well you don't look ahead and you don't look
G
back
G C G C
How many times can you get up after you been
G
hit?
G C G C G
Well I swear if I could spare the spit
G C G C G
I'd lay one on your shiny chrome
G C G D G
And send you on your way back home
G C G
So if you're gonna leave your town where the
C G
north wind blow
C G C
To go on down where that sweet soda river
G
flow
G C G C G
Well you better think twice twice on it Jack
G C G C
You're better off buyin' a shotgun dead off
G
the rack
G C G C
‘Cause there ain't nothin' down here down
G
here friend
G C G D
Except seeds blowin' up the highway in the
G
south wind
G C D G
We're movin' on movin' on we're movin'
