Lighting Up The Mighty Mississippi chords by Cheryl Wheeler

Chords with lyrics

Cheryl Wheeler - Lighting Up The Mighty Mississippi


CAPO: 3rd Fret


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

      C majorC        G+G
Big yellow moon, dark blue sky
FF        G+G   FF   G+G
Lighting up the mighty Mississippi
      C majorC        G+G
I'm headed home, I can't decide
   FF         G+G    FF    G+G
If my heart is just too full or just too empty

      FF      C majorC            G+G
Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills
    FF       C majorC        G+G   FF
And the highways I've come to know so well
     C majorC             G+G
I always knew I could fall back on you
    C majorC        FF       G+G
Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell


             C majorC            G+G
Still, it's nice to keep moving, down the dotted line
     FF         G+G   FF    G+G
Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain
         C majorC          G+G
If I keep my eyes open, take a little time
DmDm        FF         G+G
No two towns will ever look the same


  FF        E minorEm   G+G
And sometimes on the AM radio
 FF      E minorEm     G+G
I get a little local Polka show
  FF         C majorC      G+G
And folks are friendly everywhere I go


INSTRUMENTAL: C majorC E minorEm G+G FF  C majorC G+G


C majorC             FF
Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day
  C majorC              E minorEm       G+G
The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away
       C majorC               FF
And it's not like someone's waiting when I get home anyway
             C majorC         G+G
So, I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey
     C majorC        G+G       FF        DmDm
But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky
          FF      G+G