Song Title: SHENANDOAH
Artist: Arlo Guthrie
Tune: Traditional Irish
Album: Son of the Wind (1992)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zWgfzGq5g0
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 2nd fret
VERSE 1:
G7 C Am Em F C
The Mis-souri she’s a mighty ri-ver
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
The Redman’s camp lies on her borders
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 2:
G7 C Am Em F C
A white-man loved an Indian mai-den
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
With notions sweet his canoe was laden
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 3:
G7 C Am Em F C
Oh Shenan-doah, I love your daugh-ter
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
I’ll take her cross the rollin’ water
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 4:
G7 C Am Em F C
The Chief dis-dained the trader’s doll-ars
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
My daughter never you shall follow
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 5:
G7 C Am Em F C
At last there came a Yankee skip-per
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
He winked his eye and he tipped his flipper
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 6:
G7 C Am Em F C
He sold the Chief that fire wa-ter
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
And crossed the river, stole his daughter
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
VERSE 7:
G7 C Am Em F C
Oh Shenan-doah, I long to hear you
F C C7
A-way, you rollin' river
Am Em F
A-cross the wide and rollin’ water
C Em Fmin7
A-way, we're bound a-way
C Am G7 C
Across the wide Missouri.
Tabbed by Andy from Bury St Edmunds, England - 2015 ([email protected]).
