Uncle Frank

     G
They powered up the city with hydro-electric juice
    Em
Now we got more electricity than we can ever use
     C               C/B                D                      C
They flooded out the hollow and all the folks down there moved out
    G                D                  C              G
But they got paid so there ain’t nothin else to think about


     G
Some of them made their living cutting the timber down,
    Em
Snaking it one log at a time up the hill and into town.
  C          C/B    D                 C
T.V.A. had a way to clear it off real fast.
     G                    D           C             G
Lots of men and machinery build a dam and drown the rest.


Solo

      G
Uncle Frank lived in a cabin down on Cedar Creek,
       Em
Bought fifteen acres when he got back home from overseas.
   C          C/B            D                 C
Fifteen rocky acres, figured no one else would want,
     G                  D                 C             G
Till all that backed up water had to have some place to go.


Chorus 1:

C     C/B            D
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write.
C          C/B            D
Never held down a job, or needed one in his life.
Am                          Em                            C                        G
They assured him there’d be work for him in town building cars, it’s already going down


    G
The cars never came to town and the roads never got built.
    Em
And the price of all that power kept on going straight uphill.
    C                C/B                 D           C
The banks around the hollow sold for lakefront property
      G                         D                 C             G
Where Doctors, Lawyers, and Musicians teach their kids to water-ski.


Chorus 2:

C     C/B            D
Uncle Frank couldn’t read or write.
C            C/B               D
So there was no note or letter found where he died.
Am                     Em                                        C                        G
Just a rope around his neck and the kitchen table turned on it’s side