Sugarland – One Blue Sky (Ukulele)

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C                        G             
Little Annie Vickers is boarding up windows

F                     G
And a rows all get stranded on a silos

       C                  G    
Hey, there Annie, don't even think it

F                            G
So much water and you can't even drink it

Am                G                          F      
Well, maybe by Christmas they'll dig up the rows

          Am             G                               F    G
Take whatever you can, girl, and leave the rest for the crows

                         C    G-F-G 
Leave the rest for the crows

 C                      G 
Living in Crawford for fifteen years

F                    G
Nothing much ever happens round here

      C                    G
And, no one believed the water would come

 F                             G
Til the sky grew dark and it swallowed the sun

        Am                    G                   F 
And it rained for forty-two nights and forty-two days

      Am                G               F   G
And everything that we love is floating away
(Chorus)
C                  G
How long til our dreams run dry

  F                  Am   G 
Don't know but we're staying

C                G 
On our knees we raise our eyes

  F            Am   G       F   G        C   
Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

 C                        G
Mrs. Wilson sits with an insurance adjuster

 F                       G         
Big city boy, she never did trust him

      C                      G
Have you been getting the letters I'm sending

  F                                  G
Cause the preacher swears that the world is ending

      Am                     G                  F
Well, if there's a way out, wish someone would show us

          Am                G                     F    G 
We keep looking around here   for some modern day Moses
(Repeat Chorus)
C                  G
How long til our dreams run dry

  F                  Am   G 
Don't know but we're staying

C                G 
On our knees we raise our eyes

  F            Am   G       F   G        C   
Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

        Am               G
We will dig in our heels hard as we can

         F                        G
But the backyard looks like the Rio Grande

       Am                      C               G  
And I wonder will it wash us clean or wash us away
(Repeat Chorus)
C                  G
How long til our dreams run dry

  F                  Am   G 
Don't know but we're staying

C                G 
On our knees we raise our eyes

  F            Am   G       F   G        C   
Holding on and praying to find one blue sky
(Repeat Chorus)
  C                  G
(How long til our dreams run dry)

  F                   Am   G 
(Don't know but we're staying)

C                G 
On our knees we raise our eyes

  F            Am   G       F   G        C   
Holding on and praying to find one blue sky

G         C
One blue sky