Seneca Creek chords by Charles Wesley Godwin

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
 A minorAm       E minorEm C majorC
In the Spring of 1949
 G+G            A minorAm
That’s when I crossed the county line
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
It’s there I saw in Seneca Creek
 G+G              A minorAm
A augmentedA girl named Ruth who washed her feet
A minorAm           E minorEm C majorC
I told her my name was RC Farris
 G+G            A minorAm
That I’d marry her with half a karat
A minorAm              E minorEm C majorC
She said "I do, but no stone can reach
G+G              A minorAm
"The prettiest shine of this here creek"

Verse 2:
 A minorAm            E minorEm C majorC
The mud was Deep and the roads were wide

We’d retreat and then re-take the lines
 A minorAm          E minorEm C majorC
Korean winters had torn me down

And killed all the boys from my hometown
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
But I’m coming home, Ruth, my dear
G+G             A minorAm
I got money in my pocket, don’t you fear
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
We’ll build a life by Seneca Creek
G+G              A minorAm
You’ll have everything you’ll ever need


Chorus 1:
 C majorC      G+G     FF
Let’s build a home by Seneca Creek
 C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
And raise ourselves a family
 C majorC      G+G          FF
I’ll work on the farm, you work the store
 C majorC      G+G          A minorAm
We’ll have everything we ever hoped for
C majorC      G+G          FF
With the top of a mountain above our heads
C majorC      G+G          A minorAm
And the roar of Seneca by the bed

Seneca Creek

Verse 3:
 A minorAm           E minorEm C majorC
And sure enough, the hard times came
 G+G          A minorAm
You loved yours, I did the same
A minorAm           E minorEm C majorC
But we made it through the winter’s cold
 G+G           A minorAm
And many summers young and old
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
In ’85 the creek did rise
 G+G          A minorAm
But it only took the other side
 A minorAm              E minorEm C majorC
It took Gandee, North Fork, and South Branch too
 G+G               A minorAm
The house still stood that I built for you


Verse 4:
 A minorAm      E minorEm C majorC
In ’94 when you got sick
 G+G             A minorAm
We’d make up trips for the hell of it
 A minorAm       E minorEm C majorC
Take my hand, Ruth, my dear
 G+G          A minorAm
I’ll take you back to any year
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
And now you lie on the hill up high
 G+G         A minorAm
Right beneath the mountain sky
 A minorAm         E minorEm C majorC
Seneca Creek sings below
 G+G          A minorAm
Atop the tree sits a lonely crow


Chorus 2:
 C majorC      G+G     FF
We built a home by Seneca Creek
C majorC      G+G     A minorAm
And raised ourselves a family
C majorC      G+G      FF
I worked on the farm, you worked the store
C majorC      G+G      A minorAm
We had everything we'd ever hoped for
C majorC      G+G      FF
With the top of a mountain above our heads
C majorC      G+G      FF
And the roar of Seneca by the bed

Seneca Creek