Cover Up The Sun

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Colorado passes by like writing on a
 wall
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Headed eastward down to New Orleans
C                         Em
Dippin' into Texas as the stars are 
fading out
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There's still a lot of country in 
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between

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When I left California I was 29 
        C
years old
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And the world just spun me around
      C                       
Now I watched Louisiana scroll 
  F                C
across the window pane
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And I face in the direction I am 
 F
bound

Dm C   G  C   F
Co-ver up the sun
Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run
Dm   C    G C   F
Make that water come
         C
Wash me away


    C                              
Me, Clifton, and the king of cats, 
   Em
we sat down in the road
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Pedro said, "Boys, we're three of 
  C
a kind,"
   C                               
He said "I sat with river rats and 
Em
hung my hat with diplomats
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Had four brothers once upon a time"


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    Am                             
He said they toured the country far
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 away from the Rio Grande
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And the road just wore them down
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So they bought a house beside a 
          F             C
lake, outside of New Orleans
      Dm                           
And they stared in the direction of
      F         G
 the escalating sound


Dm C   G  C   F
Cover up the sun
Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run
Dm   C    G    C      F
Take this good man's son
              C
And wash him away


     C                         Em
Well Sister Indecipherable is talkin
 to a wall
F                              C
Back in New York city, she's a queen
 (New York she's a queen)
      C                           
Well, resurrect or genuflect, she 
Em
saves the one she can't protect
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Keeps the chapel Pris- if not 
      G
Sis-tine


           Am                 
She drinks Absinthe mixed with 
             F              C
Kerosene to keep herself upright
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But the world still brings her down
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If you can't keep your shit 
       F              C
together when God is on your side
     Dm                          
What chance do you have when he's 
      F
not around?


Dm C   G  C   F
Cover up the sun
Dm   C    G C   F
Make that water run
Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river come
            C
To wash me away


C                         Em
People of the Mardi Gras, in their 
Tuesday best
F                              C
Waiting for the South to rise again
C                    Em
Children of Geronimo grieving for 
the West
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Feather-dressed and marching their
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 refrain


   Am                              
Oh in the dark of Armstrong Park 
  F                C
the marching bands attend
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But they never make a sound
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Just a quiet prayer for Congo 
           F            C
Square, a silent conversation there
         Dm                        
With the night to rest our eyes in 
        Bb                         
we just look to the horizon for the
  G
 change


Dm C  G  C   F
Cover up the sun
Dm  C   G  C  F
Let the river run
  Dm   C   G C    F             
I pray the waters come to wash me 
   C
away
Dm C   G  C   F
Colour in the sky
Dm   C    G  C   F
Make that diesel fly
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Oh, just lay me down to die and
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 just take me away.