Arkansas

Note:You can play this song without a capo or with a capo on 2nd (just click transpose "-2" and you get the easier version) She said 85 years have fairly flown They called me last night said my brother passed on I cried for a while and stared at the wall ?Cause there?s no one I know left in Arkansas I can still see the five of us climb out the window To lay on the porch roof that night, in the summer time Mama would line us all up on a Saturday To each have our turn in the tub She said that was Arkansas When she was young we had kerosene nights and innocent days Never dreamed we all would go separate ways But with each passing or a baby came a long distance call And we?d all make the trip back to Arkansas I could still see my brothers in the faces of old man We talked about horses and things we were missing Like the smell of a hay field the slow rolling thunder And thinking that nothing would change Yeah just like Arkansas In her younger days she said time is a river that rolls on forever You can't stop at the shore line to admire the view So you pack up your memories, pressed them like flowers ?Till all that is left here is you And Arkansas She still can hear the song of a Whip-poor-will, calling her, The wind as he whispers her name in the evening And mama still beautiful and graceful, a sunshine And daddy is handsome and strong Yeah just like Arkansas, yeah her Arkansas Yeah that was Arkansas