Cowboy Junkies – Powderfinger (Guitar Acoustic)

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Look out, Mama, there's a white boat coming down the river

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With a big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail

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I think you'd better call John 'cause it don't look like they're here To deliver the mail

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And it's less than a mile away  I hope they didn't come to stay

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It's got numbers on the side and a gun,

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And it's making big waves.

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Daddy's gone, my brother's out hunting in the mountains

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Big John's been drinking since the river took Emmy Lou

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So the powers that be left me here to do all the thinking

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And I just turned twenty-two I was wondering what to do

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And the closer they got, the more those feelings grew

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Daddy's rifle in my hands, felt reassuring

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He told me, red means run son, numbers add up to nothing

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But when that first shot hit the dock, I saw it coming

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Raised the rifle to my eye, Never stopped to wonder why

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Then I saw black and my face splashed in the sky

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Shelter me from the powder and the finger

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Cover me with the thought that pulled the trigger

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Just think of me as one you never figured

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Would fade away so young, with so much left undone

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Remember me to my love. I know I'll miss her