Chords
Uncle Frank

Key: G

Introduction:

             G  
They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice
          Em  
Now we got more electricity than we can ever use
             C                                      C/B                                         D                                                         C  
They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out
          G                                         D                                              C                                    G  
But they got paid so there ain?t nothin else to think about
             G  
Some of them made their living cutting the timber down,
          Em  
Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town.
     C                         C/B         D                                            C  
T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast.
             G                                                    D                            C                                 G  
Lots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest.
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                G  
Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek,
                  Em  
Bought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseas.
        C                         C/B                              D                                            C  
Fifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would want,
             G                                              D                                            C                                 G  
Till all that backed up water had to have some place to go.
C            C/B                              D  
Uncle Frank couldn?t read or write.
C                         C/B                              D  
Never held down a job, or needed one in his life.
Am                                                                    Em                                                                         C                                                              G  
They assured him there?d be work for him in town building cars, it?s already going down
          G  
The cars never came to town and the roads never got built.
          Em  
And the price of all that power kept on going straight uphill.
          C                                         C/B                                            D                            C  
The banks around the hollow sold for lakefront property
                G                                                                 D                                            C                                 G  
Where Doctors, Lawyers, and Musicians teach their kids to water-ski.
C            C/B                              D  
Uncle Frank couldn?t read or write.
C                              C/B                                      D  
So there was no note or letter found where he died.
Am                                                      Em                                                                                                         C                                                              G  
Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it?s side