Cranes Of Potter - Charles Wesley Godwin | Guitar Chords

[Intro]
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F | C | G | Am 
F | C | G 
G7

[Verse 1]
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       F                    C               G              Am
Claire was the mayor's daughter, knees went weak when I saw  her
   F                C                 G
We tussled for a summer when I walked in on her and Clyde
    F              C           G               Am
And so she'd often wander with every boy in Potter
     F                   C          G            C
Many suitors died with honour in war between the states

[Verse 2]
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    F                      C                G              Am
And Clyde was a cavalry man when he got home to him she ran
           F                     C    G
But he had eyes for Western lands and left her behind
   F                   C            G                    Am
So Claire settled down, her husband moved her out of town
     F                    C              G                C
They tried to lay her past to rest, hung up those evening gowns

[Break]
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F | C | G | Am 
F | C | G | G7 

[Verse 3]
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          F           C              G                Am
Now Jeremiah was a logger we all knew he's off his rocker
        F                C      G
Thought Claire to be his lover, much to her surprise
    F                    C                     G                   Am
Her children loved their mother, towards their father she g rew fonder
    F                C               G                 C
Her hair just turned blonder, beauty stood the test of time

[Verse 4]
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     F               C     G                     Am
Then word got around, that Clyde was back in town
     F               C                    G
By a way of manifest destiny he had gained himself renown
       F                C          G                 Am
In the year seventyfive, ten years after Lincoln died
       F                         C             G                   C
Claire kissed the kids goodnight, snuck off to meet her old friend Clyde



[Verse 5]
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          F           C                   G               Am
Now Jeremiah saw that chance, his own twisted sick romance
  F              C              G
Denying his advances Claire was never seen alive
   F                       C              G                  Am
He hung for what he'd done, we caught him bloody with his gun
         F                     C          G                     C
He never told us where she lay, but I know that Claire would run

[Solo]
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F  | C  | G | Am 
F  | C  | G | G7 
E  | Am | F | C  
E  | Am | F | C  
Am | G  | C | F  
C  | G  | C 

[Verse 6]
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              F               C            G         Am
We never found that girl from Potter, who'd so often wander
     F                     C             G
Till more than a century later a builder found her in the ground
       F                 C          G            Am
Beneath the cranes of Potter, where Jeremiah shot  her
      F                C         G
There lies the mayor's daughter, two feet down

[Outro]
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       F                 C        G          Am
Beneath the cranes of Potter, hair no longer blonder
       F                 C             G            C
Beneath the cranes of Potter, in her finest evening gown