Arkansas chords by The Henningsens

Chords with lyrics

Note:You can play this song without a capo or with a capo on 2nd (just click transpose
"-2" and you get the easier version)


     D MajorD  A augmentedA    E MajorE   D MajorD
She said 85 years have fairly flown
  D MajorD        A augmentedA       E MajorE       F# minorF#m
They called me last night said my brother passed on
 D MajorD     A augmentedA     E MajorE       D MajorD
I cried for a while and stared at the wall
        D MajorD    A augmentedA     E MajorE    A augmentedA
‘Cause there’s no one I know left in Arkansas

   E MajorE            D MajorD
I can still see the five of us climb out the window
F# minorF#m              E MajorE
To lay on the porch roof that night, in the summer time
E MajorE           D MajorD
Mama would line us all up on a Saturday
F# minorF#m             E MajorE
To each have our turn in the tub
         D MajorD
She said that was Arkansas

   A augmentedA          D MajorD    A augmentedA     E MajorE    D MajorD
When she was young we had kerosene nights and innocent days
   D MajorD     A augmentedA      E MajorE    F# minorF#m
Never dreamed we all would go separate ways
       D MajorD      A augmentedA      E MajorE       D MajorD
But with each passing or a baby came a long distance call
   D MajorD       A augmentedA    E MajorE     A augmentedA
And we’d all make the trip back to Arkansas

    E MajorE            D MajorD
I could still see my brothers in the faces of old man
  F# minorF#m           E MajorE
We talked about horses and things we were missing
    E MajorE             D MajorD
Like the smell of a hay field the slow rolling thunder
  F# minorF#m             E MajorE
And thinking that nothing would change
         D MajorD
Yeah just like Arkansas

   A augmentedA           G+G          B minorBm
In her younger days she said time is a river that rolls on forever
  A augmentedA                E MajorE
You can’t stop at the shore line to admire the view
    G+G           B minorBm
So you pack up your memories, pressed them like flowers
   C majorC            BB
‘Till all that is left here is you
   E MajorE   D MajorD   A augmentedA
And Arkansas

  E MajorE              D MajorD
She still can hear the song of a Whip-poor-will, calling her,
  F# minorF#m           E MajorE
The wind as he whispers her name in the evening
  E MajorE            D MajorD
And mama still beautiful and graceful, a sunshine
  F# minorF#m          E MajorE
And daddy is handsome and strong
        D MajorD         D MajorD
Yeah just like Arkansas, yeah her Arkansas
       D MajorD
Yeah that was Arkansas