C
[Verse 1]
F C
Ain’t no more cane on the Brazos
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
F C
It’s all been ground down to molasses
F G C
Yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2]
I saw a red iron sunset
From a rust iron bridge
F
In the Indian country
C
Of the mockingbird kid
[Verse 3]
I saw the moon in a boxcar
Being carried as freight
F
Through sixty-two winters
C
Through forty-eight states
[Verse 4]
In an old Chinese graveyard
I slept in the weeds
F
When a song and a story
C
Were all a kid needs
[Verse 5]
Hear the rhymes and the rattles
Of those runaway trains
F
And the songs of the cowboy
C
And the sound of the rain
[Chorus]
And it’s, "Mom, I miss you"
I woke up and screamed
F
American rivers
C
Roll deep through my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, asleep in the sandy old water
F C F C
Yeah, old water, yeah
[Interlude]
C Bb C Bb C
[Verse 6]
We named ‘em for Indians
Our guilt to forsake
F
The Delaware the Blackfoot
C
The Flathead the Snake
[Verse 7]
Now they roll past casinos
And old hamburger stands
F
They’re all waving farewell
C
To the kid on the land
[Verse 8]
With their jigsawed old arteries
So clogged and defiled
F
No open heart miracle
C
Is gonna turn ’em back wild
[Verse 9]
Past towns gone to bankers
Past fields gone to seed
F
All cut up and carved out
C
So divided by greed
[Verse 10]
And old grandfather catfish
With his whiskers so long
F
And his life in a struggle
C
'Cause the oxygen’s gone
[Chorus]
"Oh, mom, I miss you", I woke up and screamed
F
These American rivers
C
They poison my dreams
F C
It's Colorado, yeah, Allegheny
F C
Shenandoah, Susquehanny
Am G
And the Wabash and the Hudson, the brave Rio Grande
F C
I was a kid there, I was asleep in the sandy old water
F C F
Yeah, old water, yeah
