Arlo Guthrie – Shenandoah (Guitar)

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Song Title: SHENANDOAH Artist: Arlo Guthrie Tune: Traditional Irish Album: Son of the Wind (1992) 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]).