Jim Reeves – The Mighty Everglades (Guitar)

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Chords

(Verse 1 & 2 parlando.) [Intro] | G | [Verse 1]
G                         A               D
South from Okeechobee and reachin' to the Keys

Bm              A              G
Lays the mighty wonder, nature made

G                                   D    G
A hundred miles of jade, the mighty Ever-glades
[Verse 2]
                              A               D
It's beautiful at sunset, but oh' there's something else

                                G
That makes the bravest heart, a-fraid

                                D
A world of things a-crawlin', a-thumpin' and a-bawlin'

    G             D    G
And wadin' in the Ever-glades
[Verse 3]
G         D
Creepin', seepin'

G                         D7
I hear a million things a-weepin'

     G              C
As I gaze, into the weirdness

   G                D7
Of the mighty, Ever-glades
[Verse 4]
G        D7
Over and over

G                              D
I call, oh please come back my lover

       G                C
But my love is dead, or wandrin'

       G        D     G
In the fearful,  Ever-glades
[Verse 5]
C               G                  D7                G
Voices (voices) callin' (callin'), shadows (shadows) fallin' (fallin')

C                    G                  A               D7
Spirits (spirits) of those (those), who ventured in and stayed

G        D    D7   G                    D
Hear it, fear it,   never, never go too near it

            G              C           G            D     G
For there's myst'ry in the hist'ry, of the mighty,   Ever-glades
[Verse 6]
C                                       D7                G
Seepin', (seepin') crawlin' (crawlin'), spirits (spirits) callin' (callin')

C                  G                   A                 D7
Slidin', (slidin') hidin' (hidin'), my love, in the Ever-glades

G               D     D7     G                             D    D7
Over (over) and over (over), I call but now she's gone for ever

       G                 C                 G            D     G
And my heart is wandrin' with her, through the mighty,   Ever-glades
[Outro]
                                D
A world of things a-crawlin', a-thumpin' and a-bawlin'

    G             D    G
And wadin' in the Ever-glades