Uncle Frank

     G
They powered up the city with 
hydro-electric juice
    Em
Now we got more electricity than we 
can ever use
     C               C/B          
They flooded out the hollow and 
      D                      C
all the folks down there moved out
    G                D         
But they got paid so there ain’t 
         C              G
nothin else to think about


     G
Some of them made their living 
cutting the timber down,
    Em
Snaking it one log at a time up the 
hill and into town.
  C          C/B    D            
T.V.A. had a way to clear it off 
     C
real fast.
     G                    D       
Lots of men and machinery build a 
    C             G
dam and drown the rest.


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      G
Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on
 Cedar Creek,
       Em
Bought fifteen acres when he got 
back home from overseas.
   C          C/B            D   
Fifteen rocky acres, figured no 
              C
one else would want,
     G                  D         
Till all that backed up water had 
        C             G
to have some place to go.


Chorus 1:

C     C/B            D
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write.
C          C/B            D
Never held down a job, or needed one
 in his life.
Am                          Em   
They assured him there’d be work 
                         C         
for him in town building cars, it’s
               G
 already going down


    G
The cars never came to town and the 
roads never got built.
    Em
And the price of all that power kept
 on going straight uphill.
    C                C/B          
The banks around the hollow sold 
       D           C
for lakefront property
      G                    
Where Doctors, Lawyers, and 
     D                 C    
Musicians teach their kids to 
         G
water-ski.


Chorus 2:

C     C/B            D
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write.
C            C/B               D
So there was no note or letter found
 where he died.
Am                     Em        
Just a rope around his neck and 
the kitchen table turned on it’s 
C                        G
side