Tom: D
Introdução: D G D A Bm G D
D
I am the shaker
G D
You're my hammer in the frost
A Bm
Don't you sing of rivers now
G D
The ones I'll never cross
D
And if I sing along
G D
Will that river make me wise?
A Bm
Craft another melody
G D
We'll holler at sunrise
A
There's a buck-skin highway headed north
Bm
The choice is east or west
A
At that lonely river town
Bm
Where the bar-fly knows you best
D G D
I'll never know why we came to Wise River
A Bm
Where the snow can fall like cannonballs
G D
That lonesome wind blows bitter
D
Now if you're weary
G D
Well, they don't mind you passin' through
A Bm
Those seats are for the cowboys though
G D
They ain't for me or you
D
It was the wrath of a man
G D
Near one hundered years ago
A Bm
Can't you hear the ghost of miners wail
G D
In the hell they dug below?
A
And one thing marks the reason
Bm
And another's on my mind
A
That one thing lasts forever
Bm
And that's the darkness in their eyes
D G D
I'll never know why we came to Wise River
A Bm
Where the snow can fall like cannonballs
G D
That lonesome wind blows bitter
G Bm
Somethin' colder is growin' me older than she
G Bm
She could share this, an heiress of copper and wheat
A G
And if they forgive the folly in their fields
D
They may find her there asleep
D
Oh, well, they lost it all
G D
One shot at fortune's fame
A Bm
Only the river's left for diggin', boys
G D
And they'll fly to jump your claim
D
It ain't the storms that blow
G D
That'll make you dread the road
A Bm
It's the distance that grows heavy now
G D
Beneath the weight of snow
D G D
I'll always know why we came to Wise River
A Bm
Where the snow can fall like cannonballs
G D
That lonesome wind blows bitter
G D
I'll always know why we came to Wise River
A Bm
Where the snow can fall like cannonballs
G D
And that lonesome wind blows bitter
A Bm
Where the snow can fall like cannonballs
G D
That lonesome wind blows bitter