Bruce Springsteen – Inyo (Guitar)
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Chords
from “Inyo” (2025)
[Intro]
G G D G
[Verse 1]
G G Over the washes of the Big and Little Tujunga G C Above the Mojave in a two-horse buckboard G D Bill Mulholland, Fred Eaton set out for the Owens River Valley D G In the fall of 1904 G G Through the Tehachapi, up along the Sierra Nevada G C Through the Green Valley towards the Owens River mouth G D They come to bring that Owens River water D G Two hundred miles to the desert city south
[Chorus 1]
C G Ain't you feeling dry, ain't you feeling dry now D G My brother, ain't you feeling dry
[Verse 2]
G G I was a blaster in the black hole of Elizabeth G C Hard rock tunneled five miles of the coast range G D In the black mud we drilled and set the charges D G Blew through that mountain in just a thousand days G G Owens River water for the Queen of Angels G C From the heavens of the High Sierra packed snow G D Owens River water for the children of the Queen of Angels D G Make rich the land syndicate of the San Fernando
[Chorus 2]
C G Ain't you feeling dry, ain't you feeling dry now D G My brother, ain't you feeling dry
[Bridge]
C G Now my uncle pushed the Paiute from their valley D G Cut out his homestead in blood and pulled crops out the desert sand C G Then the south they come to share our water D G 'Cause the south was thirsty, my friend
[Verse 3]
G G Come the drought of '19, they started pumping G C Water from the Owens table underground G D Our big cottonwoods died, our ranches they went dry D G The green fields they blew dusty and brown G G I set the first charges for the ranchers in '24 G C Fired the fuse on two hundred pounds of dynamite G D I blew a hole in that aqueduct I'd helped build D G Sent thunder rolling out across the desert night
[Chorus 3]
C G Ain't you feeling dry, ain't you feeling dry now D G My brother, ain't you feeling dry
[Verse 4]
G G Sacramento, the Kern, the Colorado G C The King, the San Joaquin, my friend G D For the power, for the water, for the prosperity D G And for the men with the money in the end G G Tonight the Santa Ana's drawing west across the Mojave G C Blowing fire and dust onto L.A. County windowsills G D Bill Mulholland, Fred Eaton's dead in their graves D G The Queen of Angels she remains thirsty still
[Chorus 4]
C G Ain't you feeling dry, ain't you feeling dry now D G My brother, ain't you feeling dry C G Ain't you feeling dry, ain't you feeling dry now D G My good brother, ain't you feeling dry