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Merle Haggard
CHORUS:
DA
I'll never swim Kern River again.
A
It was there that I met her.
AEE7
It was there that I lost my best friend.
D
And now I live in the mountains.
C#mD
I drifted up here with the wind.
A
And I may drown in still water,
EA
But I'll never swim Kern River again.
VERSE
A
I grew up in an oil town,
DA
But my gusher never came in.
A
And the river was a boundary
AEE97)
Where my darlin' and I used to swim.
A
One night in the moonlight
DA
The swiftness swept here life away.
A
And now I live on Lake Shasta and
AEA
Lake Shasta is where I will stay.
CHORUS
A
There's the South San Joaquin,
DA
Where the seeds of the dust bowl are found.
A
And there's a place called Mount Whitney
AE97)
A
Well, it's not deep nor wide,
ADA
But it's a mean piece of water my friend.
A
And I may cross on the highway,
EA
But I'll never swim Kern River again
CHORUS
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| Tom Lindsey "When you come to a fork in the road, |
| San Francisco, CA - Yogi Berra
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