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[First Verse]

{Fast tempo]

Dear Arkansas daughter

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You with the dark curls, you with the watercolored eyes


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You who bears all your teeth in every smile

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Says I can always hear you sing, I wanna hear you scream to me


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While a stranger braids my hair back out on the street

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And in your dreams we are shooting at snakes

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And while you were asleep, I was surely awake

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I was talking at a cigarette
There’s nothing left to say
But he should have been there anyway
For I didn’t sing a single song,

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all day

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As my love for you dies
As my love for you dies
As my love for you is steadily dying
As sharp and serious as a pistol in the eye

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[Lead into the next verse with another set if you like]

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[Second Verse]

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   G           Em

My heart is full of swords

Am        C       G

Full of, full of swords

G              Em        Am C G

Your love, it knows the Lord


G                   Em

Tie my hands and I’m on my knees

Am                 C                G

As I kneel down, I kneel down in the sea

G               Em

To the ocean floor, I will sink

Am             C             G

Like a steel chest full of weapons

G                        Em

And all in spite of the tide, you will rise

Am                C           G

Like a red, ripe, red, ripe apple


G                  Em

Take a swim in the dirty water

Am      C         G

Dear Arkansas Daughter

G                   Em
Take a swim in the dirty water

Am         C                 G

Darling, child, true love of mine

[Repeat in place of the solo] : G Em Am C G

[Final verse]

(Fast tempo)

Lead in with

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As my love for you dies
As my love for you dies
As my love for you is steadily dying
Darling, child, true love of mine
Darling, child, true love of mine

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