The Rock chords by Harry Chapin

Chords with lyrics

(capo 3rd fret)

   E minorEm            D MajorD
The rock is gonna fall on us, he woke with a start

    BB            C majorC
And he ran to his mother, the fear dark in his heart

  E minorEm             D MajorD
He told her of the vision that he was sure he'd seen

  BB                  C majorC   BB    E minorEm
She said: "Go back to sleep son, you're having a bad dream!"


[Silly child...]

G+G
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

D MajorD
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground

C majorC
Remember Chicken Little said the sky was falling down

   BB               C majorC      BB    E minorEm - C majorC - E minorEm
Well nothing ever came of that, the world still whirls around

   E minorEm              D MajorD
"The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class

  BB                C majorC
The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses

  E minorEm                 D MajorD
But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill

   BB              C majorC  BB    E minorEm
If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!"


[Crazy boy...]

G+G
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

D MajorD
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground

C majorC
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears

  BB                      C majorC    BB      E minorEm - C majorC - E minorEm
You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years

   E minorEm              D MajorD
"The rock is gonna fall on us." He told the magistrates

  BB                  C majorC
"I believe that we can stop it but the time is getting late

  E minorEm                D MajorD
You see I've done all the research my plans are all complete."

    BB                   C majorC   BB     E minorEm
He was showing them contingencies when they showed him to the street


[Just a madman...]

G+G
Everybody knows the rock leans over the town

D MajorD
Everybody knows that it won't tumble to the ground

C majorC
Everybody knows of those who say the end is near

BB                  C majorC   BB   E minorEm
Everybody knows that life goes on as usual round here

(A minorAm 8x's)

  A minorAm           G+G
He went up on the mountain beside the giant stone

   D MajorD              E minorEm
They knew he was insane so they left him all alone

   A minorAm             G+G
He'd given up enlisting help for there was no one else

  D MajorD               E minorEm
He spent his days devising ways to stop the rock himself

  A minorAm                  G+G
One night while he was working building braces on the ledge

   D MajorD                BB       E minorEm
The ground began to rumble the rock trembled on the edge


   E minorEm              D MajorD
"The rock is going to fall on us! Run or you'll be crushed!"

   BB              C majorC
And indeed the rock was moving, crumbling all to dust.

    E minorEm               D MajorD
He ran under it with one last hope that he could add a prop

  BB           C majorC  BB     E minorEm
And as he disappeared the rock came to a stop


  E minorEm               D MajorD
The people ran into the street but by then all was still

   BB                 C majorC
The rock seemed where it always was or where it always will be

   E minorEm                  D MajorD
When someone asked where he had gone they said: "Oh he was daft.

  BB                 C majorC     BB     E minorEm
Who cares about that crazy fool." And then they'd start to laugh


  A minorAm                G+G
But high up on the mountain when the wind is hitting it

      D MajorD             BB         E minorEm
If you're watching very closely the rock slips a little bit