{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1077889,"song":"Oh Susquehanna","artist":"Defiance, Ohio","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11238487-oh-susquehanna-chords-by-defiance-ohio/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1077889?type=chord","rating":4.71037,"votes":67,"content":"Well, after three versions of this song, no one has quite got it spot-on yet. While \r\nVersion 2 had the right idea, they failed (as everyone else did) to realize there is a \r\nvaried chord progression midway through the verse, as you'll see here.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nChords used:\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n\r\nIntro:\r\n(mute the strings and strum the rhythm)\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWe walk up the paths of the banks of the mighty Susquehanna[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWith our feet made muddy by your tributaries[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThat trickle their way to the Chesapeake[/tab]\r\n[tab]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nIt's like we follow I-83 down to the harbor cities[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nStrip malls and the tar-mac[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]\r\nPeople swirling and teaming[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt seemed so exciting, but now it seems like such a blight[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nI grew up near Kentucky's Mt. Zion Road[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                   [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAll that was there was some old cemetary[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Am[/ch]                                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI wanted nothing more than to be able to walk to the store[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNow I don't live there but there's too many stores[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nSome apartments and a Sunoco[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I wonder what did they do with the bodies?[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I wonder what did they do with the bodies?[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nSusquehanna (x4)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n[ch]C[/ch]  [ch]F[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd I miss that place behind my house where I[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nHiked and climbed and played[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhere I'd ditch this noisy century or just[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nHid out from the decade[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Am[/ch]                                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nM-I homes thought it could stand to be updated[/tab]\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Am[/ch]                                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nForced it all into a grid until it looks like the funny pages[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWith every trace of light that seems confined within a frame[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                  [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThe faces move from day to day but the strips all look the same[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]Am[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the punchlines are resoundingly unfunny[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]Am[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nFor those trapped in this architecture of easy money[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]                             [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I feel like this all come to no good[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nThis kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBeneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThey'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nOut of this boring neighborhood[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nOh![/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]\r\nSusquehanna (x4)[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I wonder, what did they do with the bodies? (x2)[/tab]","plain_text":"Well, after three versions of this song, no one has quite got it spot-on yet. While \nVersion 2 had the right idea, they failed (as everyone else did) to realize there is a \nvaried chord progression midway through the verse, as you'll see here.\n\n\n\n\nChords used:\nC  F  Am\n\nIntro:\n(mute the strings and strum the rhythm)\nC  F\nC  F\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC  F\n\nC  F\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nC  F\n\nC  F","chords":["C","F","Am"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]}}}