Robert Earl Keen – Here In Arkansas (Guitar)

Capo 5
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Chords

[Verse 1]
  Am
The north wind blows a prairie fire

  G               Am
Across the open plain

  Am
A light shines on a granite stone

  G                     Am
Where someone carved my name
[Chorus]
 F                     G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am             F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                  F
Things have gotten out of hand

  G           Am
Here in Arkansas
[Verse 2]
  Am
An icy ring around the moon

  G             Am
A fire across the sky

  Am
They buried me this afternoon

  G                Am
And left me here to die
[Chorus]
   F                   G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am            F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand

  G          Am
Here in Arkansas
[Verse 3]
 Am
Sheriff Clark, Reverend, Friend

 G            Am
Missus Worthington

 Am
Told my family that I'd be the end

 G              Am
To all they've done
[Chorus]
 F                      G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am            F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand

  G        Am
Here in Arkansas
[Verse 4]
 Am
Mother raised the children

  G            Am
Daddy worked the farm

 Am
I was born the seventh son

 G              Am
Of the seventh-born
[Chorus]
  F                    G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am           F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand

G            Am
Here in Arkansas
[Verse 5]
 Am
All the elders did decree

  G             Am
My soul to be unclean

  Am
They strapped me to a gurney

  G            Am
And gave me morphine
[Chorus]
  F                  G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am             F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand

 G            Am
Here in Arkansas
[Verse 6]
 Am
Sister walks into the night

 G                   Am
And prays, my soul to save

 Am
And underneath the cold moonlight

  G              Am
She finds my open grave
[Chorus]
 F                  G
Sister, find the preacher-man

  Am           F
Daddy, call the law

  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand

  G         Am
Here in Arkansas
[Outro]
   Am
The north wind blows a prairie fire

   G         Am
Here in Arkansas