Jim Reeves - The Mighty Everglades

Capo: 2nd fret

[Intro]
G

[Verse 1]
G A D
South from Okeechobee and reachin’ to the Keys
Bm A G
Lays the mighty wonder, nature made
G D G
A hundred miles of jade, the mighty Ever-glades

[Verse 2]
A D
It’s beautiful at sunset, but oh’ there’s something else
G
That makes the bravest heart, a-fraid
D
A world of things a-crawlin’, a-thumpin’ and a-bawlin’
G D G
And wadin’ in the Ever-glades

[Verse 3]
G D
Creepin’, seepin’
G D7
I hear a million things a-weepin’
G C
As I gaze, into the weirdness
G D7
Of the mighty, Ever-glades

[Verse 4]
G D7
Over and over
G D
I call, oh please come back my lover
G C
But my love is dead, or wandrin’
G D G
In the fearful, Ever-glades

[Verse 5]
C G D7 G
Voices (voices) callin’ (callin’), shadows (shadows) fallin’ (fallin’)
C G A D7
Spirits (spirits) of those (those), who ventured in and stayed
G D D7 G D
Hear it, fear it, never, never go too near it
G C G D G
For there’s myst’ry in the hist’ry, of the mighty, Ever-glades

[Verse 6]
C D7 G
Seepin’, (seepin’) crawlin’ (crawlin’), spirits (spirits) callin’ (callin’)
C G A D7
Slidin’, (slidin’) hidin’ (hidin’), my love, in the Ever-glades
G D D7 G D D7
Over (over) and over (over), I call but now she’s gone for ever
G C G D G
And my heart is wandrin’ with her, through the mighty, Ever-glades

[Outro]
D
A world of things a-crawlin’, a-thumpin’ and a-bawlin’
G D G
And wadin’ in the Ever-glades