Grand Canyon chords by Judy Collins

• Capo on 1st

♫ Intro:

| Am     | F      | Am     | F      |




♫ Verse 1:
   Am             Am/G
Outside my window lies the canyon
F                    G         D
 Red and turquoise, orange and blue
Am                     Am/G
 Wandering through the painted desert
F                     G       D
 Like some bewildered drunken fool
F             Am
 The Colorado deep within her
F                  Am
Cuts and rolls and sings and plays
F               Am
 Waterfalls and purple rainbows
F                G      Dsus4    D
 In her mists of silver haze

♫ Verse 2:
Am            Am/G
Once I knew a man who traveled
F                G     D
 Down her waters every day
Am               Am/G
 Made his living guiding strangers
F                  G        D
 Where his shadows knew the way
F               Am
 On the borders of the rivеr
F                  Am
Lit the fires and smoked thе pipes
F                   Am
 Told the travelers all his stories
F                 G       Dsus4
 Dared the men to win the prize


♫ Chorus 1:
C
White with foam the water danced
F
 Over rocks and under skies
C
 Blue with summer, drenched in rain
F            G    Dsus2
 Faster than I realized


♫ Verse 3:
Am            Am/G
 He was hard about his work
F               G    D
 Soft about the columbines
Am            Am/G
 Spoke about Apache friends
F                   G      D
Missed the years of silver mines
F                  Am
 When the west was far away
F                  Am
 Safe from eastern peddlers
F                Am
 When the canyon was his own
F             G        D
 Far from mindless meddlers


♫ Chorus 2:
C
In his arms I often listened
F
 Sharing every dream he dreamed
C
 A summer lover soon to fly
F                   G         Dsus4    D
 Far from where the moonlight gleamed


♫ Verse 4:
Am           Am/G
I have often thought of him
F                G       D
 Riding down the river's heart
Am              Am/G
 Living for the plunging waters
F            G     D
 Prying mysteries apart
F            Am
Is he still alive and smiling
F            Am
 Through a hazy waterfall
F            Am
 Sometimes I think it was madness
F                 G        Dsus2
 To have left his lonesome call
   F               G      Dsus2
To sail beyond the canyon wall
F              G     Dsus2
Out to where coyotes call
F               G         Dsus2
Back then, when I knew it all


♫ Outro:
| F      | Dsus2   | F  G   | Am     |