Chord/Tab song: Bear Creek Blues

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Bear Creek Blues - John Prine


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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Email: Dlgibson@netscape.com

Tuning: Standard

Artist: John Prine
Album: Fair & Square
Year: 2005

Intro:
[D]

[D]Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go down.
[G]Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go [D]down.
Well it [A]makes me feel like I'm on my last go '[D]round.

[D]The water up on Bear Creek, Tastes like cherry wine.
The [G]water up on Bear Creek, Tastes like cherry [D]wine.
One [A]drink of that water, You stay drunk all the [D]time.


Break:
[D]
[G] [D]
[A] [D]

[D]If you stay up on Bear Creek, You'll get like Jesse James.
If you [G]stay up on Bear Creek, You'll get like Jesse [D]James.
You'll [A]take two pistols, And you'll rob that Bear Creek [D]train.


(Repeat Break)

[D]I'm going high, high, Up on some lonesome ridge.
I'm [G]going high, high, Up on some lonesome [D]ridge.
Look [A]down on Bear Creek, Where my good gal used to [D]live.

[D]Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go down.
[G]Way up on Bear Creek, Watching the sun go [D]down.
Well it [A]makes me feel like I'm on my last go '[D]round.

(Repeat Break)