CHORDS: Jesse Welles – See Arkansaw Chords on Piano & Ukulele

These are See Arkansaw chords by Jesse Welles on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar, and Keyboard.

[Verse]
Am7
I asked the man 
when Texas ended
    D
He said if you\'re  
lucky it won\'t
  Am7
I said I gotta gift 
I gotta get to Fort 
Smith
       D7
I was startin\' to 
lose all hope
     Am7
The night was 
young 
when he pulled 
out a 
gun
         D
And the bullet just 
missed my nose
   Am7
I thought I was 
delivered 
when I crossed 
the big river
           D7       
Thought I knew, But 
               D
I just didn\'t know

[Refrain}
   C     C/G 
I passed over 
    D   
the Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from 
 C  C/G     D
poverty to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in 
Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
           Am7
I saw the soybean 
fields and the 
flatbed trucks
       D7
And I watched the 
concrete creep
 Am7
Subdivided shoutin\' 
on a blackrock 
mountain
        D7
Sayin\' this is how 
it 
feels to be free
            Am7
I read the scripture 
on the billboard
7
Prophesying my 
damnation
 Am7
Reaching for his 
life, 
preachers on his 
third wife
        D7
Out in Branson on a 
big vacation

[Refrain]
Am7 C         C/G    
     I passed over the 
D        
Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
I skipped from 
 C  C/G   
poverty to 
 D
poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

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[Verse]
        Am7     
I saw a nuclear 
      D7
plant    homegrown
      Am7
And I know it 
ain\'t fake \'cause 
they grew it in a 
lake
           D7
That they built just 
to cool its bones
And they handed out 
a lotta badges
     D
And made a lotta 
energy
           Am7
That they fired 
in a 
wire across state 
lines
           D7
While the state 
slurps up the fee
             Am7
And there\'s hardly a 
place that meth ain\'t
 D
Planted a dead 
white kiss
         Am7
You can smell it in 
the air
You can see it in 
the chair
        D7
It\'s a pretty damn 
hard to miss
        Am7
I saw a law officer 
shrug his whole body
   D7
Resigned to an 
American God
             Am7
Say if they wanted to, 
they\'d help themselves
        D7
Then he put away his 
bible and he got 
out a gun

[Refrain]
C        C/G      D      
I passed over the Ozarks 
    Am
and onto the Ouachitas
                C  C/G 
I skipped from poverty 
    D
to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in 
Arkansas
   G     C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
   Am7
If God lives up in 
the Rockies
    D7
If that\'s where the 
big man meddles
        Am7
Then a lesser being of 
a lower degree
         D              
Must\'ve come down there 
            D
and settled
       Am7
I met revelators and 
archimandrites
     D
The big and the 
belittled
   Am7
I reckon all in time 
deep in my mind
             D
We\'re gonna meet 
in the middle

[Refrain]
Am7 C         C/G 
     I passed over 
    D 
the Ozarks 
    Am7
and onto the Ouachitas
                C  C/G 
I skipped from poverty 
    D
to poverty
       Am7
Fenced in in Arkansas
   G     C G  C G
Arkansas

[Verse]
Am7
 I can\'t tell ya 
where 
one thing ended
      D7
And another did occur
Am7
It was new and it was 
old to me
        D
It was more than I 
could observe
Am7
If what is seein\'s 
for the taking
         D7           
And the taking can be 
 D
seen
          Am7
I\'m gonna need your 
help with the 
calculations
           D7
I\'m can\'t tell ya 
what 
it all means

[Outro]
Am7 C       C/G 
     Passed over the 
Ozarks and 
Am7
onto the Ouachitas
               
I skipped from 
 C  C/G    
poverty to 
 D
poverty
       Am7
Fenced in Arkansas
   G     G
Arkansas