Buffalo River Home chords by John Hiatt

• Capo on 4th
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: E

🎸 Intro:

C    F    C    F
C


🎸 Verse 1:
          G
I've been taking off and landing
                   C
But this airport's closed
             F                         C
And how much thicker this fog is gonna get
         G
God only knows
F

Just when you think that you've got a grip
C                                    F
Reality sneaks off, it gives you the slip
C         G/B       Am      G
As if you ever knew what it was
F          Em       Dm
Takin' you down the lime


🎸 Chorus:
G                   C
Tearing through the cotton fields and bus shelters
       F
Of the South runnin' helter skelter
                 C    G/B    Am
Down through the Mississippi Delta
G       F                  G
With no place to call your own
          C
Mixing up drinks with mixed feeling
F
All along the paint was peeling
           C      G/B          Am
Down to an Indian blanket on a pony
G       F            Em        Dm
With no rider in the flesh and bone
                F             C
Lookin' for his Buffalo river home


🎸 Interlude:
C    F    C    F    C


🎸 Verse 2:
          G
I've been circling the wagons
             C
Down at Time Square
          F                       C
Trying to fill up this hole in my soul
                 G
But nothing fits there
F
Just when you think you can let it rip
       C                                         F
You're pounding the pavement in your daddy's wingtips
C         G/B           Am      G
As if you had someplace else to go
     F      Em         Dm
Or a better way to get there


🎸 Chorus:
G                   C
Tearing through the cotton fields and bus shelters
       F
Of the South runnin' helter skelter
                 C    G/B    Am
Down through the Mississippi Delta
G       F                  G
With no place to call your own
          C
Mixing up drinks with mixed feeling
F
All along the paint was peeling
           C      G/B          Am
Down to an Indian blanket on a pony
G       F            Em        Dm
With no rider in the flesh and bone
                F             C
Lookin' for his Buffalo river home


🎸 Interlude:
C    F    C    F    C


🎸 Verse 3:
            G
Now there's only two things in life
                       C
But I forget what they are
                      F                       C
It seems we're either hangin' on a moonbeam's coattails
              G
Or wishing on stars
F
Just when you think that you've been gyped
    C                                    Dm   F
The bearded lady comes and does a double back flip
        C           G/B      Am
And you run off and join the circus
G             F        Em   Dm
Yeah you just let that pony ride


🎸 Chorus:
G                   C
Tearing through the cotton fields and bus shelters
       F
Of the South runnin' helter skelter
                 C    G/B    Am
Down through the Mississippi Delta
G       F                  G
With no place to call your own
          C
Mixing up drinks with mixed feeling
F
All along the paint was peeling
           C      G/B          Am
Down to an Indian blanket on a pony
G       F            Em        Dm
With no rider in the flesh and bone
                F             C
Lookin' for his Buffalo river home


🎸 Outro:
F    C    F                             C
          Lookin' for his Buffalo river home
F    C    F    C