Jesse Welles – See Arkansaw (Guitar)

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SONG: SEE ARKANSAW ARTIST: JESSE WELLES TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] [Intro] NONE [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                      D
Thought I knew, But I just didn't know
[Refrain}
   C     C/G      D          Am7
I passed over the Ozarks and onto the Ouachitas

                C  C/G     D
I skipped from 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

       D7
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      D          Am7
     I passed over the Ozarks and onto the Ouachitas

                C  C/G     D
I skipped from poverty to poverty

       Am7
Fenced in in Arkansas

   G     C G
Arkansas
[Verse]
        Am7           D7
I saw a nuclear 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

                      Am7
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          Am
I passed over the Ozarks and onto the Ouachitas

                C  C/G     D
I skipped from poverty 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                          D
Must've come down there 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      D          Am7
     I passed over the Ozarks and onto the Ouachitas

                C  C/G     D
I skipped from poverty 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            D
And the taking can be seen

          Am7
I'm gonna need your help with the calculations

           D7
I'm can't tell ya what it all means
[Outro/Refrain}
Am7 C       C/G      D          Am7
     Passed over the Ozarks and onto the Ouachitas

                C  C/G     D
I skipped from poverty to poverty

       Am7
Fenced in Arkansas

   G     G
Arkansas