The Carter Family – Bear Creek Blues (Guitar)

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[Intro] E A E B7 E [Verse 1]
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Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down

    A                                     E
Way up on Bear Creek, watching the sun go down

   B7                                    E
It makes me feel like I’m on my last go-’round,
[Instrumental] E A E B7 E [Verse 2]
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The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine

    A                                          E
The water on Bear Creek, it tastes like cherry wine

    B7                                               E
You take one drink of it, you’re drinking it all the time
[Instrumental] E A E B7 E [Verse 3]
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If you stay on Bear Creek, you’ll get like Jesse James

       A                                         E
If you stay on Bear Creek, you’ll get like Jesse James

       B7                                               E
You’ll take two old pistols and hold up that Bear Creek train
[Instrumental] E A E B7 E [Verse 4]
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I’m going high, high up on some lonesome hill

    A                                    E
I’m going high, high up on some lonesome hill

     B7                                           E
Look down on Bear Creek where my good gal used to live
[Outro] E A E B7 E