{"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":940984,"song":"Friends Apickin - Current River","artist":"Misc Unsigned Bands","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11614761-friends-apickin-current-river-chords-by-misc-unsigned-bands/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/940984?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"Current River\r\nVerse 1\r\n\r\n[tab]              [ch]A[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]    \r\nWhen I was a child, my family would travel[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown to Southeast Missouri, where my parents where born[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                       [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThere's a backards old town thats oftn remembered[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]E[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSo many times at my memry's reward[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus\r\n[tab] [ch]A[/ch]                                    [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDaddy wont you take me back to old Shannon County[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]A[/ch]                            [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nDown by the Current River where paradise lays[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSorry my son, but your too late in askin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe government has already took it away[/tab]\r\n\r\n(Fiddle/Harmonica Solo)\r\nVerse 2\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]                           [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSometimes we'll travel right down the Current River[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                             [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTo the old Bailey Ferry down at PowderMill Bridge[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]A[/ch]                    [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere if you took the time to stop and to listen[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]A[/ch]                        [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]         \r\nYou could hear the dogs runnin' up high on the ridge[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus and Solo\r\n\r\nVerse 3\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThe govenment came and they took all our houses[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                          [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey took all our homes and they took all our land[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]A[/ch]    \r\nNow their gone and the land is forsaken[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]E[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThey wrote it all down as the progress of man[/tab]\r\n\r\nNo Chorus, Verse 4\r\n[tab]        [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhen I die let my ashes float down the Current River[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                      [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLet my soul roll right up to Frank Roberts Land[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]A[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI'll be half way to heaven with paradise a'waitin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]A[/ch]                     [ch]E[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFive miles away from wherever I am[/tab]\r\n\r\nChorus then solo to fade","plain_text":"Current River\nVerse 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus\n\n\n\n\n\n(Fiddle/Harmonica Solo)\nVerse 2\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus and Solo\n\nVerse 3\n\n\n\n\n\nNo Chorus, Verse 4\n\n\n\n\n\nChorus then solo to fade","chords":["A","D","E"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]}}}