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Buffalo Creek - Mike Morningstar
Standard Tuning
Tabbed by: Thajerkstar

Intro: Am-G-Am-Am

Am                G                     F        G            Am
Now Buffalo Creek swelled and broke and all it's water came a'roarin' down
                  G                    D
Sweepin' away the homes and lives of a West Virginia town
    F                G                        F       G      Am
And in that cold and raging flood more than a hundred people drowned

     C                 G                  D
Some say the flood was caused by rain and some said melted snow
    F               G                   F         G      Am
But deep down in my heart I believe the coal mine bosses know

Instrumental break: (Intro)

Am                     G             F      G         Am
They strip off all the topsoil, they uproot all those trees
                             G                          D
And they killed the folks in Buffalo Creek, and they all shrug the blame with ease
     F                     G                 F       G         Am
They don't give a damn for life or land they roll on like they please

     C                 G                  D
Some say the flood was caused by rain and some said melted snow
    F               G                   F         G      Am
But deep down in my heart I believe the coal mine bosses know

Instrumental break: (Intro + Verse + Intro)

Am                        G                 F      G         Am
And the Governor said the flood was just an act of God's own will
                             G                   D
But the strippers tear these mountains down it's enough to make me ill
    F             G            F         G      Am
The rape of Appalachia for the greenback dollar bill

     C                 G                  D      
Some say the flood was caused by rain and some said melted snow
    F               G                   F         G      Am
But deep down in my heart I believe the coal mine bosses know
C              G                     D
Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, it's a coal mine bosses' show
F              G                  F          G       Am
Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, how could they sink so low?

Instrumental break: (Intro + Verse + Intro)

Am                  G                F    G        Am
How can we let this kind of thing go on before our eyes?
                       G                   D
When strip mine bosses trade our lives for nickels and for dimes
       F                G                     F        G      Am
Well I beg you folks to stop these men, don't let this happen twice
                           G                         D
You could see those people drowning there, don't you hear their mournful cries?

  C                     G                 D
I hear them through the falling rain they haunt me in the snow
F              G                     F         G       Am
Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, it's a coal mine bosses' show
C              G                   D
Buffalo Creek, Buffalo Creek, when will you people know?
    F                   G                  F          G        Am
And when will you folks tell these boys to pack their gear and go?

Outro: Am-G-Am

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