CAPO: 4th Fret

INTRO: G D G C G D G

In the afternoon light, riding around
Riding my bike all over town
They said on TV, that out west right now
The rivers can poison us

And it was hard to believe, watching it win
Kept coming down and kept coming in
And finally reached where our great cities stand
Now the rivers can poison us

And once more we find out, in case we forgot
Just who is strong here and just who is not
As if we could hand her some route that we’d plot
And now the rivers can poison us

It lifted the trash, it lifted the gold
And lifted the lives too weak to hold
All swept into some diluvian fold
The rivers can poison us

And it’s like all that we’ve done, has seeped from the sea
It’s been, take what you want and leave what you leave
We sure have been pigs since Adam and Eve
Now the rivers can poison us

And I love the thought of us all being one
But kids in the third grade pack needles and guns
And now we might die if we lie in the sun
And the rivers can poison us

Salt of the earth, ebb and the flow
All that we have and more than we know
Laden with garbage from decades ago
The rivers can poison us

Well, maybe one day the great salty blue
Will swallow us up with all that we knew
And things will start over like they always do
When the rivers can poison us
The rivers can poison us

CAPO: 3rd Fret

INTRO: F Dm Am Bb

Thought you’d bide your time and play your part
But you were wrong dear
Somewhere down the line your lonely heart
Could not belong here
And in some frame of reason
Beyond our vision
Your love lagged behind and fell apart
Without a soul to hear

On a night like this the stars don’t shine
And there’s no moonlight
We’re like you I guess, we bide our time
Try to play our parts right
And wonder where you gathered
Your angry sorrow
Through the rolling mist the scenes unwind
They seem so clear to-night

BRIDGE:
And in my sleep you are crying still
The way you touch your brow, hang your head
I never knew and I never will
The voices haunting you, a thing that I could do

INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm Bb Dm C Am Dm Bb Dm C F

Were they in your stars, those lonely nights
Tormented hours?
Something snapped your spars and slacked your lines
And took your powers
Did no one see you sinking
‘Til you’d gone under?
While you slipped so far beyond the lights
Were we just watching ours?

OUTRO: Dm Bb Dm C F (3x)

CAPO: 6th Fret

INTRO: C F-C (2x)

When we were in love, or whatever it was
We tore apart their believing hearts
Just to ride that passion in

And we survived okay, through the mess we made
But I don’t know how we can come back now
And try to be friends again

CHORUS:
‘Cause when I see you, I can’t let the past remain the past
All that heartache we brought on, comes rushing back so fast
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now[F-C][F-C]

With a shiver and chill, it haunts me still
What a fool I was to have almost lost
Most of what’s dear to me

From the very first touch, we took too much
In the fire we found, I was burning down
And just too blind to see

CHORUS:
And when I see you, I can’t let the past remain the past
All that heartache we brought on, comes rushing back so fast
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now[F-C][F-C]

BRIDGE:
If we had just held on and maybe once
Seen beyond our fire
But our try-agains and might-have-beens
Were swept away when we were
Oh, when we were

OUTRO:
Ohooooh
I can’t see no road ahead, just pulls me down somehow
There’s so much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now
So much water under that bridge, it must be sinking now

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If I were maybe a wolf or a dog
I wouldn’t have to speak, Wouldn’t have to talk
Just eat my dinner and go for a walk
And howl at the moon

And if I were laying there just like you
All curled up the way dogs do
I’d dream that dream that you’re dreamin’ too
And howl at the moon
Howl at the moon
Howl at the moon

And if I could carry your black and white
Sleep so sound wake so nice
I’d keep real close to my own advice
And howl at the moon

Oh, you know something I don’t know
You go places I can’t go
You lift your head when the breezes blow
To voices older than time

I’ll keep you close Oh, I like you near
I’ll touch your head and pull your ear
And watch you resting while I sit here
And howl at the moon

Howl at the moon
Howl at the moon
Howl at the moon

I’ll watch you resting while I sit here
And howl at the moon

INTRO: C G F C G

Big yellow moon, dark blue sky
Lighting up the mighty Mississippi
I’m headed home, I can’t decide
If my heart is just too full or just too empty

Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills
And the highways I’ve come to know so well
I always knew I could fall back on you
Now it wouldn’t matter which way I fell

Still, it’s nice to keep moving, down the dotted line
Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain
If I keep my eyes open, take a little time
No two towns will ever look the same

And sometimes on the AM radio
I get a little local Polka show
And folks are friendly everywhere I go

INSTRUMENTAL: C Em G F C G

Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day
The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away
And it’s not like someone’s waiting when I get home anyway
So, I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey
But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky
And lighting up the mighty Mississippi

CAPO: 4th Fret

INTRO: G D C D (2x)

What can I say, what can I do
I can’t feel more, feel more for you
And everyday I’m walking some street
Just watching it fade beneath my feet

CHORUS 1:
Tell me baby, does the future look black
Can we still look forward, if we can’t go back
Am I holding you up, holding you down
Making you feel there’s no way out__

I see your face, I see my part
I walked away and broke your heart
And you’re marking your time and hearing some call
And you can’t find no peace at all

CHORUS 1:
Tell me baby, does the future look black
Can we still look forward, if we can’t go back
Am I holding you up, holding you down
Making you feel there’s no way out__

BRIDGE:
Oh, and I wish I knew what I don’t know
Can’t hold on and can’t let go
Something ‘bout these ties that bind
Your broken heart is breaking mine_______

I don’t care about wrong, I don’t care about right
Lord, I don’t want another angry night
I wanna lay me down when the moon comes up
I wanna feel this love wash over us

CHORUS 1:
Tell me baby, does the future look black
Can we still look forward, if we can’t go back
Am I holding you up, holding you down
Making you feel there’s no way out__

CHORUS 1:
Tell me baby, does the future look black
Can we still look forward, if we can’t go back
Am I holding you up, holding you down
Making you feel there’s no way out__

CHORUS 2:
No way I could change the past and know
But tell me baby, has it all been (row ?)
I feel better ‘cause we made things right
As I slowly walk the floor all night

OUTRO:
Tell me baby, does the future look black

CAPO: 2nd Fret

INTRO: C F Em F Em C

How can there be trouble in this world?
With the colour in these hills
The blue October sky
This little road that winds along the river

Dusty barns and tractors in the fields
And families sit in front yards
Or stand outside the churches
Kids are throwing footballs
And pulling carts of pumpkins
And the morning sun is sparkling on the water

How can there be such trouble in this world?
Where the mountains roll so gently
Deer graze on the hillsides
Birds chat on the phone lines
The whole wide world’s a prayer for Sunday morning

The geese inspect the stubble in the fields
And all along the roadside
Families stop to wonder
At the new October morning
And a red tailed hawk is circling

And a father hugs his daughter
And an old man holds the car door for his wife to come and see
Then they turn and smile at me
How can there be such trouble in this world?

I know of course, I know, that this is not the only picture
F C F ~ G
I don’t of course, I don’t, know what to do

INSTRUMENTAL: F C F ~ ~ G F C ~ ~ G C F Em C

But the road keeps winding through the afternoon
And it doesn’t know the sorrow
Or an inkling of the shadow
Of the rage across the water
The hatred and the horror
It just wanders through this valley with the river by its side
As the light fades from the sky
The beautiful light fades from the sky

INTRO: Dm F Am F G Am

Easy to find and hard to hold
Love is like summer green, waiting to grow old
It is not like the stories school girls told
It is quiet as a winter dawn

Maybe I’ve never loved at all
Maybe passions arise and leave me where I fall
Until I hear some familiar memory call
And I know that love has changed or gone

BRIDGE:
Who knows the nature and who holds the key?
As emotions unwind, is it heart, is it mind?
I’ll never know if it’s love or it’s me
On and off like the wind, strong and fading again

INSTRUMENTAL: Am F G Am Dm F G (2x) E7 E Am

And all around me I can see
Those who ran from the night for warmth and company
Until they woke to the strangers they could be
And the passion they no longer knew

Here’s to the school girls lost in time
And the boys running wild, to see what they can find
Trading love of the long and lasting kind
For a bottle of a stronger brew

Here’s to the school girls lost in time
And the boys running wild, to see what they can find
Trading love of the long and lasting kind
For a bottle of a stronger brew

OUTRO: Dm F G Am F Am
For a bottle of a stronger brew

INTRO: G C G C D G C G D

Oh, I guess I can’t stop you
No, I guess you’ll just leave
It’s like I woke and found
You walking on sacred ground [D-C]
Bringing a great dread down on me

And I know we’ve had hard times
But I thought we’d still try
Now didn’t we both intend
To see this through thick and thin [D-C]
It wasn’t just sink or swim this time

CHORUS:
Well, this ain’t the love you swore to me
Oh, this ain’t the life it’s supposed to be
And I don’t know just how to hold on now
And it’s so far to fall
From the warm light in your eyes
To nothing at all

Guess I’ll drop by and see my old friends
Maybe go off on my own
You speak from a heart so cold
To tell me your love’s grown old [D-C]
And just not enough to hold you down

CHORUS:
Well, this ain’t the love you swore to me
Oh, and this ain’t the life it’s supposed to be
And I don’t know just how to hold on now
And it’s so far to fall
From the warm light in your eyes
G ~ ~ C
To nothing at all, oh ooh
It’s so far to fall
From the warm light in your eyes
To nothing at all

INTRO: F G F ~ ~

Time takes us from cradle to grave
From helpless to helpless again
There ain’t no turning back
C ~ ~ F
On this one way track
‘Cause one day we’re bound to give in

CHORUS:
And it just keeps rolling by
C ~ ~ F
Like the sun in the sky
Like the darkness that follows the day
F G C ~ ~ ~ F
And it may be the lord who giveth
But it’s time that taketh away

You watch us grow up
We watch you grow old
It’s the order we’ve known from the start
But it don’t help to know
C ~ ~ F
When time’s running low
‘Cause I swear it still tears us apart

CHORUS:
And it just keeps rolling by
C ~ ~ F
Like the sun in the sky
Like the darkness that follows the day
F G C ~ ~ ~ F
And it may be the lord who giveth
But it’s time that taketh away

BRIDGE:
And how can I start to take this in stride
Who let your strength start to fray
And how can I stop the tears in my eyes
You’re fading away, fading away

CHORUS:
And it just keeps rolling by
C ~ ~ F
Like the sun in the sky
Like the darkness that follows the day
F G C ~ ~ ~ F
And it may be the lord who giveth
But it’s time that taketh away
But it’s time that taketh away

OUTRO: F G F ~ ~ ~ C