Lighting Up The Mighty Mississippi Chords
Lighting Up The Mighty Mississippi by Cheryl Wheeler is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C with a capo on the 3st fret. It uses the chords C, G, F, Dm and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
rd Fret
Intro: C G F C G
C G
Big yellow moon, dark blue sky
F G F G
Lighting up the mighty Mississippi
C G
I'm headed home, I can't decide
F G F G
If my heart is just too full or just too empty
F C G
Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills
F C G F
And the highways I've come to know so well
C G
I always knew I could fall back on you
C F G
Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell
C G
Still, it's nice to keep moving, down the dotted line
F G F G
Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain
C G
If I keep my eyes open, take a little time
Dm F G
No two towns will ever look the same
F Em G
And sometimes on the AM radio
F Em G
I get a little local Polka show
F C G
And folks are friendly everywhere I go
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