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Oregon Hill (M. Timmins/Cowboy Junkies)
(from the album Black Eyed Man)

Corrections/improvements welcome.

(I'm playing this song  with a E- E6 -E7 riff through most of the verses.  That is, an E, then an E with my pinkie added on 2nd fret of 2nd string, then sliding my pinkie up to the 3rd fret.  Of course, there may be a better way.)

E- E6 -E7 riff
The hoods are up on Pine Street, rearends lifted, too
The great-grandsons of General Robert E. Lee

F#mF#m Piano Chord 

are makin' love with a little help from STP

AA Piano Chord 
                                                E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
Their women on the porches, comparin' alibis

(E- E6 -E7 riff)
Greasy eggs & bacon, bumper stickers aimed to start a fight
Folk in wrecks, confederate caps, if you want some shine well
F#mF#m Piano Chord 
   F#m7F#m7 Piano Chord 

you can always find some more

AA Piano Chord 
                                                           E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
but what I remember most, is the color of Susie's door

C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                G#G# Piano Chord 
                  AA Piano Chord 
                          EE Piano Chord 

And Susie says she's up there, cutting carrots still

EE Piano Chord 
        BB Piano Chord 
                          AmAm Piano Chord 

Susie says she's missing me

F#mF#m Piano Chord 
                           E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
so I'm missing, Oregon Hill

(E- E6 -E7 riff)
A river to the south, to wash away all sin
A college to the east of us, to learn where sin begins

F#mF#m Piano Chord 
      F#m7F#m7 Piano Chord 

A graveyard to the west of it all

AA Piano Chord 
                                E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
The child may soon be lying in it

AA Piano Chord 
                                   EE Piano Chord 

Cause to the north there is a prison,

AA Piano Chord 
                           EE Piano Chord 

which I've come to call my home

AA Piano Chord 
                                  EE Piano Chord 

but come Monday morning, no country song,

BB Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 
        EE Piano Chord 

will sing me home again

C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                G#G# Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 
                  EE Piano Chord 

Susie says she's up there, cutting carrots still

EE Piano Chord 
        BB Piano Chord 
                   AmAm Piano Chord 
               F#mF#m Piano Chord 
                      E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -EE Piano Chord 
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Susie says she's missing me, so I'm missing, Oregon Hill

(E- E6 -E7 riff)
Sunday morning, 8 a.m., sirens fill the air
Sounds like someone made the river
F#mF#m Piano Chord 
  F#m7F#m7 Piano Chord 

Sounds like someone being born again

AA Piano Chord 
               G#mG#m Piano Chord 
      F#mF#m Piano Chord 
         E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
But me, I'm just lyin' here in Susie's bed

AA Piano Chord 
                               EE Piano Chord 

Baptists celebrating with praises to the lord

AA Piano Chord 
                           EE Piano Chord 

Rednecks doin' it with gin

AA Piano Chord 
                                     EE Piano Chord 
        BB Piano Chord 
        AA Piano Chord 
       EE Piano Chord 

Me and Susie, we're just celebrating, the joys of sleepin' in,

F#mF#m Piano Chord 
              AA Piano Chord 
            E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
because tomorrow,  I'll be home again.

C#mC#m Piano Chord 
                    G#G# Piano Chord 

Susie says she'll wait there,

AA Piano Chord 
                                   EE Piano Chord 

cutting carrots by the window sill

EE Piano Chord 
        BB Piano Chord 
                       AmAm Piano Chord 

Susie says always think of me,

F#mF#m Piano Chord 
                           E-E- Piano Chord 
 E6E6 Piano Chord 
 -E7
when you think of,  Oregon Hill