Arkansas Chords

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Though the brambles took the cabin I was born in
 
        Am                                       C
And the briers have claimed the fields I used to plow
 
          F                          C
There’s a yearning in my heart to be going
 
                G7                 C
To that 40 acre patch God sowed in Stroud 
 
 
 
     Am                        C
Arkansas are your rivers still flowing 
 
               F                G7
Is your cotton growing white as snow
 
        F                               C
Are the squirrels still a barking up on Old Crowleys Ridge
 
        F                            C              Am
Has the girl I was sparking gone and burned another bridge
 
     C
Arkansas
 
 
 
I have known the troubles I was born to know
 
       Am                                C
I have wanted things a poor mans born to want
 
       F                               C
And in all my dreams and memories I go running
 
                           G7               C
Through the fields of Arkansas from which I sprung
 
 
 
     Am                        C
Arkansas are your rivers still flowing
 
               F                G7
Is your cotton growing white as snow
 
       F                               C
Do the young men still fiddle with the thought of growing rich
 
    F                                C              Am
And slowly turn to old folks sitting whittling on a stick
 
     C
Arkansas 
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