Hank Williams - Old Man And The River Chords

                   Old Man And The River

                                         (Hank Williams)

C 
There's an old man who lives by the river                
                             G7            C
In an old log cabin with the cracks in the wall

Makes his livin' by the catchin' of the fish
                                G7            C
If he don't catch many well he can't fix the wall

 
F         F
Oo-ee the whistle of the wind 
                              G7       C
Nail up the boards where the wind goes in
F      C
Oo-ee can't go to sleep,
                                 G7           C
Wade across the river where the waters ain't deep

 

Old man prayed the big fish are bitin'
                            G7          C
The time of the year it's  late in the fall

Winter's 'commin' the winds gonna whistle
                            G7            C
Snow gonna blow through the cracks in the wall

 
F         C
Oo-ee the whistle of the wind
                             G7        C
Nail up the boards where the wind goes in
F      C
Oo-ee can't go to sleep,
                                G7           C
Wade across the river where the water ain't deep



The old man Courted a pretty youg maiden
                       G7     C
A maiden that he loved most of all

She ran away with a cool river gambler
                    G7       C
Cool river gambler, seven feet tall


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