Eastern Continental Divide chords by Cary Ann Hearst

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

verse:
C majorC        G+G       C majorC       FF
I found no satisfaction in the lies I told to you
C majorC      G+G        C majorC        A minorAm
Anything is better than the cumbrance of the truth
   C majorC          FF
So I stole your last gold dollar
C majorC            FF
Took everything I could find
C majorC        G+G
Went out west to gamble
C majorC            FF
Drink out the trouble in mind

FF       C majorC     G+G
I crossed that deep muddy water
  C majorC           FF
The last of my dignity and pride
    C majorC           G+G       C majorC      G+G    C majorC
Watched them sink down in the bottom of that eastern continental divide

chorus:
   FF         C majorC                    FF
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
            C majorC              G+G
A augmentedA beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
   FF       C majorC              G+G
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
 FF           C majorC              G+G    C majorC
I never meant to hit the bottom of that eastern continental divide

verse:
 C majorC          G+G
I thought I'd make our fortune
   C majorC            FF
Make something outta nothing again
   C majorC         G+G
Like I did when I first loved you
   C majorC        A minorAm
When I was an honest man
    C majorC           FF
Now my eyes are blacker than burned out tyres
   C majorC         FF
As I walk to the rising sun
C majorC        G+G
Too far gone for turning around
C majorC         FF
Nothing left to be won

FF        C majorC      G+G
I crossed that great smokey mountain
   C majorC           FF
From Tennessee to South Carolina
C majorC      G+G       C majorC      G+G    A minorAm   C majorC
Faded in the bottom of that eastern continental divide

chorus:
   FF         C majorC                    FF
Now I plead here in your mercy, oh the shame that I brought on us all
            C majorC              G+G
A augmentedA beggar in the arms of charity, like Adam after the fall
   FF       C majorC              G+G
And I leave you my apology, though I am doing my time
FF         C majorC           G+G    A minorAm
You never will get over that eastern continental divide
   FF      G+G    FF   C majorC
That eastern continental divide