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Big River - The Highwaymen
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
Artist: The Highwaymen
Album: Highwayman
Year: 1985
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I taught the weepin' willow how to cry, cry, cry.
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And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
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And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river.
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And I'm gonna sit right here until I die.
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I met her accidentally in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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And it tore me up every time I heard her drawl, southern drawl.
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And I heard my dream, Went back downstream, cavortin' in Davenport,
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And I followed you, big river, when she called.
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Oh, she took me to St. Louie later on, down the river.
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Freighter said, "She's been here, but she's gone, boy, she's gone."
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And I found her trail in Memphis, but she just walked up the club.
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Raised a few eyebrows and went on down alone.
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Well, I pulled into Natches next day down river,
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But there wasn't much there to make the rounders stay very long.
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When I left it was rainin' so nobody saw me cry.
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Big river, why she doin' me this way?
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Now, won't you batter down by Baton Rouge, River Queen, roll it on.
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Take that woman on down to New Orleans, New Orleans.
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Go on, I've had enough, dump my blues down in the gulf.
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She loves you, big river, more than me.
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I taught the weepin' willow how to cry, cry, cry.
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And I showed the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
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And the tears that I cried for that woman are gonna flood you, big river.
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And I'm gonna sit right here until I die.
