Arrowhead chords by Richard Shindell

Chords with lyrics

Richard Shindell - Arrowhead


CAPO: 5th Fret


INTRO: C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC G+G C majorC

     G+G        C majorC
Mama, if you could see me now
                 G+G    C majorC
I'm not the boy you knew in Macon town
                  FF
They found a uniform about my size

It's a little big I guess, but that's alright
C majorC    G+G        C majorC
Mama, if you could see me now

       G+G         C majorC
Mama, they're treating me right well
                     G+G    C majorC
The men all say I brought this good luck spell
                   FF
I am the mascot of the Ninth Brigade

They will not march unless I lead the way
C majorC       G+G         C majorC
Mama, they're treating me right well


    G+G       C majorC
Mama, I do not have a gun
                   G+G    C majorC
I'm only lucky when I'm banging on my drum
                        FF
And I skinned a rabbit for the cook last night

He said that I could keep his Bowie knife
C majorC    G+G       C majorC
Mama, I do not have a gun


    G+G      C majorC
Mama, I lost my arrowhead
                   G+G    C majorC
It was big enough to strike a bobcat dead
                    FF
Must've fallen when I climbed that tree

Yankee fires as far as I could see
C majorC    G+G      C majorC
Mama, I lost my arrowhead

     G+G         C majorC
Mama, the troops are falling in
                      G+G    C majorC
And we must move while we've still got the wind
                       FF
The scouts are fanning out like whippoorwills

Today we're marching over Bloody Hill
C majorC     G+G         C majorC
Mama, the troops are falling in


INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G  C majorC  FF  C majorC G+G C majorC


    G+G         C majorC
Mama, I never thought I'd run
                        G+G
But something happened when I saw those Yankees come
  C majorC                  FF
Now I've been running now a week or two

Too ashamed to run back home to you
C majorC    G+G         C majorC  FF
Mama, I never thought I'd run__
  C majorC    G+G         C majorC  FF
Oh Mama, I never thought I'd run__
  C majorC    G+G         FF    C majorC
Oh Mama, I never thought I'd run___