Dave Alvin - Everett Ruess Chords

[Intro]
A  Asus4
A  Asus4
A
 
 
[Verse 1]
A                  Bm
I was born Everett Ruess,
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I been dead for sixty years,
A                            Bm
I was just a young boy in my twenties,
               A  Asus4  A
The day I disappeared.
 
 
[Chorus 1]
         D     A         Bm
Into the Grand Escalante Badlands,
         A        C#m     F#m
Near the Utah and Arizona line,
Bm                      E
And they never found my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A  Asus4  A  Asus4  A
  Or understood my mind.
 
 
[Verse 2]
A                Bm
I grew up in California,
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And I loved my family and my home,
A                          Bm
But I ran away to the High Sierra,
                             A  Asus4  A
Where I could live free and alone.
 
 
[Chorus 2]
    D               A            Bm
And folks said He's just another wild kid,
    A          C#m          F#m
And he'll grow out of it in time?
Bm                      E
But they never found my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A  Asus4  A  Asus4  A
  Or understood my mind.
 
 
[Verse 3]
A                        Bm
I broke broncos with the cowboys,
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I sang healing songs with the Navajo,
A                              Bm
I did the snake dance with the Hopi,
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And I drew pictures everywhere I go.
 
 
[Chorus 3]
       D              A                Bm
Then I swapped all my drawings for provisions,
   A          C#m           F#m
To get what I needed to get by,
Bm                      E
And they never found my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A
  Or understood my mind.
 
 
[Instrumental]
A  C#m  F#m
Bm  E
D  A  Bm  A  Asus4  A
Asus4  A
 
 
[Verse 4]
A                        Bm
Well I hate your crowded cities,
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With your sad and hopeless mobs,
A                       Bm
And I hate your grand cathedrals,
                      A  Asus4  A
Where you try to trap God.
 
 
[Chorus 4]
             D      A           Bm
Cause I know God is here in the canyons,
         A            C#m           F#m
With the rattlesnakes and the pinon pines,
Bm                      E
And they never found my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A  Asus4  A  Asus4  A
  Or understood my mind.
 
 
[Verse 5]
A                          Bm
They say I was killed by a drifter,
                           A  Asus4
Or I froze to death in the snow,
A                 Bm
Maybe mauled by a wildcat,
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Or I'm livin' down in Mexico.
 
 
[Chorus 5]
       D       A              Bm
But my end, it doesn't really matter,
         A         C#m               F#m
All that counts is how you live your life,
Bm                      E
And they never found my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A  Asus4  A
  Or understood my mind.
 
 
[Outro]
              D       A              Bm
You give your dreams away as you get older,
A         C#m           F#m
Oh, but I never gave up mine,
Bm                       E
And they'll never find my body, boys,
D    A    Bm       A  Asus4  A  A
  Or understood my mind.