Cotton Mouth River

Capo 3

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 Well I know that I shouldn't have done it I Know it just
          G                                   Bm           wasn't right.They got me backed up to
 the cotton mouth
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river and I can't see late at night.

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Chrous....You know there's lot's of stories told about
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 the cotton mouth river they tell them time and again

about
  G                               Bm                        the men who tried to cross that 
river by moonlight and
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never were heard from again..

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If I had all my live to live over I wouldn't have gone to D G Bm work that day.Instead of going 
into town and shooting
him
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down for a thing I never heard him say(Chrous)

G                             Bm             C        D     I just made it through the cane 
break and I got one foot
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in the mud.I can hear the dogs obeying and the snakes C D
around my ankles telling me my running days are
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done(Chrous)