John Hiatt – Cold River (Guitar)

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Well he packed up his suitcase

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'Cause the deal gone down

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She was slipping on her stockings

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Lord it made the sweetest sound

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There was a baby in the reeds

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Along the river outside of town

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As he wound his pocket watch

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To set time spinnin' 'em all around

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Wasn't long they'd be forgetting

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This old rainy Texas day

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Little fella wasn't meant

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For this old world anyway

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Gambling and whoring

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Hiding from plain view

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Tell me which one of us rounders

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Would you trust this poor child to?

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You just roll on cold ri-ver

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Wash little Moses down

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We've got busi-ness to at-tend to

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In Chicago town

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In Chi-ca-go town

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Well they rolled out of Austin

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On some kind of cattle train

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She'd been with him for a year

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Didn't know his second name

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He worked the small towns hustling nine ball

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She hooked the truck stops too

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They were trying to make Chicago

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Before the winter come blowing through

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Some trucker sprang a leak

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In California they supposed

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Started working Arizona

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Lord she missed the Bloody Rose

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They rambled through the southwest

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Making money and making time

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But they never could find no help

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Not a doctor, not that kind

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You just roll on cold ri-ver

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Wash little Moses down

          Em   D    G  Em C    G
We've got busi-ness to at-tend to

D       G  C
In Chicago town

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In Chi-ca-go town

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Some women love their babies

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Some women won't have one

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Some Texas woman found him

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And we're still on the run

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The kind of life we're living

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He'd only slow us down

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Ain't good for nothing anyway

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Just rambling town to town

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You just roll on cold ri-ver

D           G     C
Wash little Moses down

          Em   D    G  Em C    G
We've got busi-ness to at-tend to

D       G  C
In Chicago town

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In Chi-ca-go town

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Well he unpacked his suitcase

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She pulled her stockings down

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Dreaming up a pool hall

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And shooting up a round

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She thought about tomorrow

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When the money rolled around

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That night they slept like babies

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In Chicago town